Global Courant 2023-04-30 23:52:45
He was sentenced to life imprisonment for causing the fire in which a couple and three children died in February 1994. He was 63 years old.
This Sunday Fructuoso Álvarez González, the perpetrator of the Flores Massacre, died: in February 1994, he caused a fire in the Bagnato family house in which the couple, two of their children and a friend of the boys died. The attacker was sentenced to life imprisonment and died in the Ezeiza prison due to an infection. He was 63 years old.
Matías Bagnato, the only survivor of the attack, fought for years to keep his family’s murderer out of jail. This afternoon, after the news of the death was released, he posted a message on his networks with the photos of the victims: “Today I can finally say it’s over. Mommy, Dad, Fer, Ale, Nico. Rest in peace. I love you with all my heart”.
Álvarez González, who had been a partner of Bagnato’s father, tried several times to recover his freedom, but his requests were denied by the Justice.
In March of this year, the head of the National Criminal Execution Court 1, María Jimena Monsalve, dismissed her last request after the socio-environmental reports of the Correctional Council of the Ezeiza Federal Complex 1 indicated “unanimously” that she is not in a condition to be released.
In her ruling, the magistrate commented that she had presented an “evident regression” in her behavior within the prison, by expressing “difficulties in complying with internal regulations, as well as her lack of adherence to the objectives set by the different treatment areas “.
Matías Bagnato, a survivor of the fire, in an act held in 2019 to commemorate 25 years of the Flores massacre. Photo: Mario Quinteros
In this sense, Monsalve observed that the prognosis for Álvarez González’s social reintegration was not favorable, which, added to “the lack of self-criticism” of the convicted person regarding the crime he committed, evidenced “the need for him to continue his treatment” in the jail.
How was the Flores Massacre?
It happened on February 17, 1994 when a fire broke out in a house on Baldomero Fernández Moreno and Pumacahua streets, in the Flores neighborhood, and José Bagnato (42); his wife Alicia Plaza (40); his sons Fernando (14) and Alejandro (9) and Nicolás Borda (11), a friend of the youngest of them who had stayed to sleep that night.
In front of the house where the Flores Matias Bagnato massacre took place Photo: Juano Tesone
Investigators determined that the fire had been intentionally started by Álvarez González, a former partner of José Bagnato, who threw two drums of fuel and ignited the fire.
The defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1995, but for having his Spanish citizenship, in 2004 he was extradited to that country to finish serving his sentence.
In Spain they released him and he was recaptured in Argentina in 2011, after threatening to kill Matías Bagnato.
Today Matías is part of the Crime Victims Observatory along with relatives of other victims of violence, including Ángeles Rawson, the Once tragedy and Cromañón.
This is how the Bagnato family house was left after the fire.
Thanks to the impulse of the observatory, Law 27,372 on the Rights and Guarantees of Crime Victims was sanctioned, through which the National Center for Assistance to Crime Victims was created to assist and advise both relatives and victims of acts of crime. violence.
D.D.
