The streaming platform Netflix will premiere the documentary Las últimas horas de Mario Biondo in its catalog next Thursday, August 3. The project presents the investigation around the death of Mario Biondo, the Italian cameraman with whom the television presenter Raquel Sánchez Silva was married for less than a year.
On May 30, 2013, the man was found dead at his home in Madrid. The scene of the event left Spanish society in shock, since the audiovisual worker was half-hanged on a shelf with a handkerchief. The death of the Italian caused a great social uproar, since his family publicly assured that it was not a suicide, but a homicide. His parents and other loved ones ignored police reports that there were no indications of criminality and began a parallel investigation into the case.
One of the main suspects in this investigation was the presenter of Masters of Sewing, whom many considered guilty despite being the widow of the deceased. Biondo’s parents made it clear in a Sálvame Deluxe that although they did not accuse Sánchez Silva, she “had not helped them to know the truth.” Paz Padilla spoke in Sálvame diario about Biondo’s death and said that she had been told that he was carrying out a sexual game that got out of hand: “She told me that, she told me she was playing”. In August 2022, the Italian courts concluded that Biondo’s death was a murder simulated suicide, but the case was dismissed due to “procedural limitations.”
Due to all the controversy of the case that has lasted more than ten years, all eyes are on the one who was the presenter of Survivors and Beijing Express to find out her opinion about the launch of the documentary.
The first public appearance of the communicator after the Netflix announcement occurred last Tuesday when she attended the Rufus Wainwright concert. Without wanting to stop, much less answer questions from the media, the woman from Extremadura was calm and carefree.
The three-chapter documentary that will be released imminently on the Netflix platform is the result of a difficult investigation that has been carried out between 2021 and 2023.
Although the parents of the deceased initially supported the audiovisual piece, ceded the rights and gave access to confidential documents, they backed down when they discovered that Guillermo Gómez, former manager of Raquel Sánchez Silva, was leading the project from behind. The couple felt very hurt and declared that they had been “used” by intentionally hiding from them the identity of the creator of said documentary.
