¿Qué se sabe del vuelco en el caso de Gervasio?

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La justicia determinó cambiar la carátula del caso de la muerte de Gervasio.

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00:00When you look around you, you don't notice that life has left you,

00:11that at the time of your hour they don't let me see the passage of time on your skin.

00:23These images correspond to 1984.

00:26In it we see the Uruguayan singer, Azu Sánchez, singing one of the emblematic songs of his repertoire.

00:33From now on, his career was on the rise.

00:35I like you a lot and I fight to beat you.

00:41I like you so much that I go up to look at you.

00:48Here we are playing.

00:52The lifeless body of the professional was hanging from a beam in the corridor of an uninhabited house.

00:59The ill-fated singer-songwriter killed himself using a nylon rope.

01:09On October 28, 1990, the body of the Uruguayan singer José Gervasio Piera Rodríguez was found

01:16hanging from a beam in an abandoned house in Talagante.

01:19At least, that was the initial thesis.

01:22However, since that day, the cause of his death has been an enigma.

01:25In principle, the theory of suicide was debunked.

01:29And although it was always ruled out by his family, it was never proven.

01:44Until yesterday, when the justice ordered to investigate the case as a homicide.

01:49That is, there was the intervention of third parties.

01:55Or the court, as it is consulted, has determined to pass the cover of suicide to homicide.

02:05That in relation to the antecedents that have been built during the entire last stage of investigation

02:12of more than 10 years, since the last reopening of the Sumario.

02:1835 years have passed since the death of the singer Gervasio was reported.

02:23And the courts have officially re-enacted the cause as a homicide.

02:27In this way, the initial thesis that pointed to a suicide was officially discarded.

02:34Now, the family hopes that with the change, the investigation will advance in clarifying his death.

02:39But let's go to the beginning of this story.

02:48Who was Gervasio? Why was he so loved by people?

03:12Born as José Gervasio Vieira Rodríguez,

03:14and simply known as Gervasio,

03:17he arrived in Santiago at the end of the 60s from his birthplace, Uruguay.

03:21Motivated to take on a musical career.

03:31He began his career in the country singing at night.

03:35And after a while, he participated in the giant Saturday program of Don Francisco.

03:39Where he strengthened his career and dazzled with his songs.

03:43He already had a name in another country.

04:03For those years, he was single,

04:05until at an event that was in favor of those affected by the Santiago storm in 1982,

04:12he met the model Mónica Aguirre, who would later become his wife.

04:22How many years ago did you meet?

04:24Four years ago.

04:26Where was Gervasio?

04:29We were doing a show in favor of the last flood.

04:34Oh, there was another flood?

04:36Yes, another flood.

04:38And at that moment, I saw her pass by.

04:42And really, it's a bit like, you know I'm short of genius.

04:46Yes?

04:48And well, after five minutes, I was already talking to her.

04:51And it was all very slow, but safe, let's say.

04:54Gervasio and his family were seen as radiant and happy.

04:58They were the best times of the Chilean nationalized singer-songwriter,

05:01who had to face a serious accusation against him.

05:17In 1984, the Uruguayan was accused by a 20-year-old girl of attempted rape.

05:24The singer attributed this accusation to a movement of revenge for his political statements,

05:28so he lived in Chile at that time.

05:31The cause never prospered and was superseded.

05:34However, in 1986 and 1988, he was again accused of sexual abuse,

05:41but was acquitted due to lack of evidence.

05:44No one could imagine it.

05:47Gervasio's statements to this journalist were desperate,

05:53they were like a cry for help, like what the headline of La Crónica says,

06:01leave me alone because you are killing my life.

06:04He was later accused of rape for the fourth time in 1990.

06:09However, no one predicted what was to come.

06:17A man who gave his life on stage,

06:20gave his life to the applause and dedicated himself a lot to those who were his friends.

06:28Goodbye Gervasio.

06:33The musician died in 1990, just two days before presenting himself to clarify his situation

06:40in front of a judge for the accusation of sexual abuse that he maintained.

06:44His body was found hanging in a beam of a house abandoned in Talagante.

06:48The official version pointed out that Gervasio had taken his life.

06:53I always felt and I always had the idea as a friend that it seemed impossible to me

07:02that Gervasio had taken his life.

07:06I have had the same opinion to this day, 35 years have passed

07:10and my way of saying, even my speech to him has not changed at all.

07:15Why do I think Gervasio did not commit suicide?

07:20Because Gervasio was a warrior.

07:23A vital man, full of energy, pure fiber,

07:28who had overcome very strong, very big problems in his childhood.

07:33Oh Lord.

07:35Gervasio was a warrior and they killed him.

07:39After the first indications that supported the thesis that it was a suicide,

07:45the first investigation on the death of Gervasio was closed.

07:48However, his sister Blanca Vieira insisted that a deeper investigation be carried out

07:54and in 1996 the cause was reopened.

07:58The artist's sister pointed out the opportunity to the participation of third parties

08:03who would have acted against Gervasio for his participation in the No campaign

08:08in the 1988 plebiscite.

08:13However, the cause was overruled after it could not be credited

08:17the participation of third parties.

08:20The reopening of the case took place 12 years after the reopening of the case in 2013

08:26after the request by Gervasio's relatives.

08:31In 2015, a report presented by the forensic expert Luis Rabanal

08:35mentioned irregularities detected in the first autopsy of the Uruguayan singer.

08:41Specifically, the professional mentioned the absence of fractures of the bone in the larynx.

08:46That, according to the artist's relatives, would show that the injuries

08:50in the neck would have been produced post-mortem.

08:53Therefore, the conclusion was that the artist had not attempted against his life,

08:58but that he had been murdered by third parties.

09:01Yesterday, the magistrate Daniela Soto of the first trial of Letras de Talagante

09:07changed the cover of the process from suicide to homicide

09:11and it became known that the proceedings will begin to clarify

09:14the death of Gervasio after 35 years of unknowns and mysteries.

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