Almost 10 years after the death of Mario Biondo on May 30, 2013, it has been known that Netflix prepares a series about the controversial case as published exclusively by Frames.
According to the information published by the magazine, the docuseries will feature unpublished testimony from both Biondo’s parents and the manager and friend of Raquel Sánchez Silva at the time of the event, Guillermo Gómez. The key to the controversy lies precisely in the participation of Gómez that is not limited solely to his testimony since he also exercises as series producer. Information that would have been hidden from Biondo’s family when their participation was requested, as explained by the mother of the victim, Santina Biondo, to La Vanguardia.
After learning this information, and according to the same newspaper, the family has hired the services of a law firm to protect their interests and has warned the platform, through burofax, of the possible consequences of the making of the documentary series.
Likewise, the judicial expert and agent of the Mossos d’Esquadra Óscar Tarruella and two other Italian journalists who have contributed to the project with their testimony consider that they were concealed that Gómez was part of the project. A piece of information that would have been enough for them to refuse to participate.
The docuseries team has Maria Pulido as directorwhile José Ortiz has directed the investigation of Andrés Torres, Paula de Soto and Luz Mora, the script is by David Zurdo and Beatriz Iznaola.
The controversial case of the death of Mario Biondo
The unexpected news of the death of the cameraman and then partner of the television presenter Raquel Sánchez Silva was the subject of multiple theories. Finally, In Spain, the investigation was closed, accepting the version of a possible suicide as good. after his body was found half-hanged and with signs of violence. His condition came to be attributed to some kind of extreme sexual practice, although it was never an official version.
Although Biondo’s wife and his in-laws initially issued a joint statement, the first differences, mistrust and finally confrontation soon appeared. To the point that parents promoted that the Italian justice investigate the case carrying out even the exhumation of the corpse up to two times to carry out new autopsies. Finally, last summer they obtained confirmation from the judge that the death of their son Mario Biondo was not accidental or self-inflicted but a murder committed by strangers and covered up with the simulation of a suicide.
