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.