Several days after we learned of the death of soccer player Álvaro Prieto, details of what happened on October 12 continue to come to light. The 18-year-old young man from Córdoba, a player for Córdoba in the División de Honor Juvenil, disappeared in the vicinity of the Santa Justa train station in Seville when he was trying to catch a train back to his hometown.
After four days without news as a young man, his body was found lifeless between two train cars at the Seville station. Hours later it was confirmed, thanks to the autopsy, that the young man died of electrocution. Since then, many media outlets have tried to reconstruct the events of last Thursday, to clarify what all the footballer’s steps were and how he managed to get to the train tracks.
The Cuatro program En boca de todos exclusively revealed this Thursday the testimony of the Renfe employee, the last person who was able to speak with the young man. Nacho Abad was in charge of opening the video, but before that he detailed the version that Adif had given about this person, who was on vacation and that he was only able to testify briefly through a phone call. After his break, the employee decided to officially testify, testimony to which the program had had access.
According to the worker’s story, around eight in the morning on October 12, a traveler showed up at the High Speed ??Services Center Office, as he could not find his ticket. ”In the first place he provided us with an email, finding another Córdoba-Málaga ticket, but since it was not the ticket he was looking for, since its origin was Seville Santa Justa with destination Córdoba, we asked him if it is certain that he had bought it from through the Renfe channel, to which he confirmed that it was,” he declared.
It was then that they asked for his credit card to have another option to find him, to which Álvaro Prieto responded that his card was virtual and that his phone was turned off. ”I offer him my charger and the companion even tells him where he can charge it, all to find his ticket and be able to help him catch his train. The traveler states that he believes it does not work and therefore we are looking for other ways to help him,’ he stated.
”The last person who attended to Álvaro ends his statement by clarifying that they offered him all the help they could, but that they lost sight of him,” said Nacho Abad.
After trying again to find the ticket, the worker assured us the following: ”Álvaro Prieto gave us another different email in the name of Rafael Prieto, through which this time we did find a round-trip ticket, Seville-Córdoba-Seville. He is told that the train had already left (…). We informed him that the next train left at 9:30 a.m.
“At that moment the traveler takes his wallet and goes to the ticket office, crossing paths with a third colleague who had come from making a connection and who made sure that the traveler was indeed at the ticket office to buy another ticket. At all times the conversation “It happens normally,” he concluded.
