“I know you didn’t want to leave”, the farewell of the wife of the truck driver murdered in Italy

“I know you didn’t want to leave,” posted Carolina Alegre, the wife of Nicolás Matías del Río (40), a Argentine driver found dead on a property in the Amiata countryside. The man, father of three children, had disappeared on May 21 while he was driving a truck transporting luxury handbags.

Carolina and Nicolás’ family take 35 days of searching desperate not only in italy but also through the argentine authorities and the foreign ministry.

On social networks and in the media of both countries, Nicolás’s face had gone viral. His family was looking for him with more hope than certainty, on both sides of the ocean.

This Tuesday, Nicolás’s body was found on a property where they had found some of the wallets transported by the truck he was driving.

Nicholas was driver of line 135 when he lived in Buenos Aires. He had two children from a previous relationship and another with Carolina Alegre, his wife, with whom he lived in a village of Abbadia de San Salvatore, in the province of Siena, in Italian Tuscany, about 22 kilometers from where he was found dead.

He had lived in this place for a year and worked for the company New Futura, owned by another Argentine, Sergio Pascual De Cico, who had become a family friend.

Clarion He tried to communicate with Nicolás’ family who, at this time, is trying to “process the situation” and asked to preserve their privacy in “this very difficult time.”

During the time that the man was missing, the Del Río family contacted the Foreign Ministry, desperate for the lack of answers of the Italian authorities.

When consulted by this newspaper, from the area in charge of Diana Mondino, they did not give details of their intervention. Through a statement they indicated: “It is reported that the Consulate in Rome received a communication from the Italian authority, in charge of the investigation and search for the whereabouts of citizen Del Rio, regarding the discovery of the mortal remains of the compatriot. In the framework of the proceedings in Italy, the ongoing investigation continues. Both the Consulate and the Italian authority maintain permanent communication with relatives of the Del Rio citizen.

It is not clear if they will be assisted in traveling to say goodbye or if the body could be repatriated once the judicial investigation has advanced.

The van in which Nicolás was traveling had appeared on fire in Rocalbegna. About 400 meters They had found boxes in which the luxury handbags that the Argentine was carrying had been packed. It is believed that the cargo was valued at 500 thousand euros.

The man, who already worked driving a crane, had added extra income: he delivered loads in a truck. That day, he had to transport letters from the factory that had their final destination, Florence.

On Tuesday, just before a police operation found Del Río’s body, Klodjan Gionj, a 33-year-old Albanian arrested on June 15, had testified.

He would have been the one who told prosecutors Giovanni De Marco and Valeria Lazzarini where the man’s body was. There is five people targeted in the investigation, three of them arrested. They are accused of murder, kidnapping, robbery and damage.

The thing is that the investigators do not rule out, according to the newspaper La Nazione, that Nicolás could have be kidnapped on a property near the place where their body was found. In that house, always according to judicial information accessed by the Italian media, they had found wallets from the shipment.

That point would have been used to “cool” the merchandise, while they lost sight of the police officers who were looking for Nicolás.

Besides they are detained Ozgur Bozkurt, 44 years old and Kaia Emre, 28, of Turkish origin.

Witnesses have reportedly identified the three detainees on several occasions at this property, between May 29 and June 2, so they do not rule out that they may have been held captive there before being killed.

In addition, Niko Gjoni, father of Klodian, and Zindan Bozkurt, father of Ozgur, who would work guarding the property, would be suspected.

The Grosseto prosecutor’s office ordered an autopsy on Nicolás’ body to determine the cause and date of death and to confirm whether he was killed after stealing his truck, setting it on fire to erase traces and taking the cargo, or if they kept him captive in The property borders the well in which his body was found.