The last hours of Mario Biondo, a documentary that premieres on Netflix tomorrow, August 3, begins with a lie. At least, the trailer that serves as a cover letter: the family of Mario Biondo, a TV cameraman found dead in his home in Madrid in May 2013, never received a call from Emme Team - an office that presents itself as agency specializing in telematic crimes – to help them find out what happened that morning. It was Santina D'Alessandro, the mother of the young Italian, who resorted to it. Desperate for so many years without answers, the Biondos grabbed any red-hot iron to find out why their son died, convinced that he was murdered. Ten years later, they have their guesses, but they are yet to be made public. Ten years later, they still trust that the Spanish judiciary will open an investigation into a death filed as a suicide.
The family of Mario Biondo agreed to participate in this new report on the death of his son (they have already intervened in others) and were interviewed in the winter. When they were made available to the production company, always under the reliable label of Netflix, they could in no way suspect that behind it all was Guillermo Gómez, representative of Biondo's wife, Raquel Sánchez Silva, for many years and that the he protected like a centurion in the months after Mario's death. He isolated her and removed her from all controversy while the family racked their brains trying to understand why Mario was dead. Relations between the widow and parents soon soured. She sued them for harassment on social media and they accused her of hiding something. When they learned from another of the interviewees, former Mossos d'Esquadra agent and forensic expert Óscar Tarruella, that the person behind the report was Sánchez Silva's guardian, they felt deeply deceived. Both Tarruella and them sent burofaxs to Netflix demanding not to appear in this documentary.
In the autumn, the Biondos put themselves in the hands of the Barcelona law firm Vosseler Abogados to lodge a complaint in Spanish territory to find out what happened to their son on the morning of May 30, 2013, once the investigation in Italy had been closed. During all these years, the Prosecutor's Office of Palermo kept the file open, carried out two autopsies, received dossiers signed by independent experts and in the conclusions, magistrate Nicola Aiello was categorical: everything pointed to a homicide, although, ten years later, he recognized that it would be more than improbable to find the authors.
