Video from Oct 13 shows Álvaro Prieto on Spain train before discovery

The video placing Álvaro Prieto on the train before the discovery

In October 2023, Álvaro Prieto missed his train at Santa Justa station in Seville, Spain. Four days later, his body was found wedged between two carriages of a convoy parked in the Renfe workshops area. Between these dates lies a video recorded from an AVE window that, according to reviews, already showed part of the body on October 13.

The author is a railway enthusiast who filmed his train's departure for Madrid. The file lasts 6:01 minutes, is 864 MB, and was recorded in 1080p at 30 frames per second from an Oppo phone. Around minute 3:28, between the second and third car of a parked train, a shape appears that several reviews identify as a sneaker.

What is seen in the video recorded on October 13

The author later corrected two details of his initial account. The departure time was not 13:55 but 16:55, and the recording point was not the side opposite to the TVE camera but the same one. That is, he pointed toward where the discovery was later filmed, near the second bridge at the exit of Santa Justa, on the Carretera de Carmona.

Several photographs also emerged from that recording, captured while the video was still rolling. They appear at the recording resolution and with motion blur, but they allow for enlargement. They show Renfe S-449 series trains parked and, further ahead, vehicles and a police van parked in the area. The author claims he did not look into the gaps between cars and did not learn of the disappearance until days later.

The official version: electrocution and fall when the train moved

The hypothesis supported by investigators, as published, is that the young man climbed onto a stopped train, touched the catenary, received a shock, and fell into the gap between two cars. The body would have become trapped until the convoy moved on Monday for a technical maneuver; then the legs became visible, and a camera captured it live.

The problem, for those comparing the two pieces, is temporal fit. If something visible was already present between those same carriages on October 13, the question shifts from how he fell to why no one saw it before. Some interpret this as sloppy search work; others go further, speaking directly of cover-up. Neither reading is proven.

The bellows, 3,500 volts, and fourth-degree burns

The technical detail most repeated concerns the gap where the body was found. The passage between train carriages is closed by a bellows, and several analyses note it is difficult to fall from the roof to near the floor if this piece is in place. Hence arises the suspicion that the accordion was removed or open.

This adds to the electrical chapter. The burns attributed to the body are described as fourth-degree, compatible with a discharge of 3,500 volts from the catenary and not with minor train elements. And a maintenance convoy, it is argued, should only be connected with personnel present. The family has requested to join the judicial proceedings, allowing a forensic report from their side.

Missing cameras and dogs that find nothing

Another front is the recordings. Only one sequence from the station was released, showing the young man leaving Santa Justa. There are no images of the workshops area, and cameras from a nearby gas station are mentioned, with some versions claiming they exist and others that they are missing. The sum of gaps fuels distrust.

The accounting of failures also includes the search. A body visible from an AVE window for several days was not detected by facility inspections or the dog operation that searched the area. This is, coldly, the most uncomfortable fact for the official story: no conspiracy is needed to explain it, only a poor inspection.

[H2]Why does the family want to join the case?[/H2]

The family requests to intervene in the proceedings to designate their own experts and access the reports. This is the usual mechanism when the public prosecution is considered insufficient, and here the discrepancy is wide: three Renfe reports reconstruct the young man's attempts to return to Córdoba via unofficial routes, but the exact sequence between the station and the train remains unclosed.

Everything stalls there. The family has not accepted the version that their son died electrocuted by his own foot with no one around, and the video from October 13 does not resolve the doubt: it enlarges it. The point where the two stories cease to fit is, precisely, the gap between two carriages.