Alejandro Rafael Puccio (1958 – June 27, 2008) was an Argentine rugby union footballer and criminal. He played in the Argentinian national rugby union team and became famous because of his participation on a criminal organization dedicated to kidnap, torture and murder wealthy people.Murió Alejandro Puccio, integrante de un famoso clan de secuestradores .El clan Puccio: Arquímedes era un psicópata, pero toda la familia estaba enferma .
Biography
Alejandro was son of
Arquimedes Puccio
The Puccio family was an Argentine criminal family. Three of the Puccios were convicted of four kidnappings and three murders in the early 1980s.
Background
The family, which comprised father Arquímedes Puccio, mother Epifanía Calvo, and five ch ...
National Reorganization Process
The National Reorganization Process (Spanish: ''Proceso de Reorganización Nacional'', often simply ''el Proceso'', "the Process") was the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983, in which it was supported by the United Sta ...
and son of Epifanía Ángeles Calvo, an accounting and Mathematics professor. Alejandro had two brothers: Daniel (Maguila) and Guillermo and two sisters: Silvia, and Adriana.
Career as a rugby player
He used to play as a 3/4 wing in the Club Atlético de San Isidro and also participated on the Los Pumas. He debuted on the first league in Club Atlético de San Isidro in 1977 at age 19 and where played until his arrest in August 1985.
He was chosen in 1979 to play the Southamerican tournament of Rugby. He played a total of five matches and scored three tries.
He was champion of the
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and also won
Torneo de la URBA
The URBA Top 13 (formerly "Torneo de la URBA", named "Top 13" since the 2022 season)San Isidro.Aquella casa del terror . They extorted his family to make them pay $250,000 U.S dollars (equivalent to as $663,450.78 of 2019). He was held captive in a bathtub where he remained for 11 days until his murder.
On 5 May 1983 they kidnapped Eduardo Aulet, a rugby player and engineer. He was initially held captive in a closet, acknowledging he was claustrophobic and then in the basement of the Puccios home. The Puccio family extorted Aulet's family to pay $150,000 (equivalent to $385,680.72 as of 2019). Although both ransoms were paid, both men were killed by the family.
Arquimedes was arrested by la División Defraudaciones y Estafas de la
Argentine Federal Police
The Argentine Federal Police ( es, Policía Federal Argentina or PFA) is the national civil police force of the Argentine federal government. The PFA has detachments throughout the country. Until January 1, 2017, it also acted as the local la ...
on 23 August 1985 on a gas station while he was extorting the last victim's family via public phone to get the rescue paid out of the family.
Alejandro was arrested that same day, while he was at home with his girlfriend, Mónica Sörvik, maestra jardinera de la Escuela Todos los Santos and then viceheadteacher of the kindergarten Myflower from San Isidro. In the basement, they found the last victim.La vida de los Puccio, la familia que secuestraba gente en su casa
When Alejandro was arrested, he denied any participation on the organization's criminal activities. Neither his playmates friends nor his girlfriend believed he was guilty. They always defended his innocence.
When Alejandro was taken to court, in late 1986, in Palacio de Tribunales, he attempted to kill himself by jumping from the fifth floor, inside the building. As a result of this suicide attempt he suffered from convulsions for the rest of his life, from which he was medicated with antipsychotics.
On 26 December 1995 he was condemned to life imprisonment At first, he was visited by his girlfriend, Monica, until he ordered her to stop coming . Later in the 1990s, he married Nancy Arrat, whom he met during his years imprisoned. In jail, he became friends with Sergio Schoklender.
He never accepted any responsibility for the crimes for which he was condemned.
He remained imprisoned until 7 April 1997 when he was released thanks to the 2x1 law on bail of half a million pesos. But due to the law's veto he was re-arrested on 28 September 1999.
Alejandro studied
psychology
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and in, September 2000, he was allowed to get out to make labouring activities.
After 22 years imprisoned, Alejandro was released from the Buenos Aires Prison located on Florencio Varela department on parole, in November 2007. He died a few months after his release, on 27 June 2008, aged 49, after being infected in a Hospital where he had been hospitalized for convulsions. No one attended his funeral.Gaby Cociffi, El Clan Puccio, la verdadera historia, Revista Gente, año 51, número 2617, pág. 10/22, 15 de septiembre de 2015, .
In popular culture
In 2015 the journalist Rodolfo Palacios published a booked called ''El Clan Puccio'' (The Puccio Clan) which includes many testimonies from Arquímedes Puccio.
In 2015 the Argentinian film director
Pablo Trapero
Pablo Trapero (born 4 October 1971) is an Argentine film producer, editor, and director.Pablo Trapero at the
The Clan'' starring
Guillermo Francella
Guillermo Héctor Francella (born February 14, 1955) is an Argentine actor and comedian. Besides a long history of working as a television leading man, he also has a varied theatrical and film career. Francella is widely regarded by experts and c ...
as the main protagonist, playing Arquímedes Puccio. Alejandro was portrayed by
Peter Lanzani
Juan Pedro Lanzani (born 24 August 1990), also known as Peter Lanzani, is an Argentine actor and singer and former child model. He is best known for his role on the Cris Morena television series ''Casi Ángeles'' playing Thiago Bedoya Agüero, a ...
Historia de un clan
''Historia de un clan'' ( es, History of a clan) is an Argentine TV series made in 2015 by Telefe, starring Alejandro Awada. It is based on the 1980s exploits of the real-life Puccio family.
Plot
The Puccio are apparently a family like any other: ...
'', a series composed by 11 chapters was released, and was broadcast by
Telefé
Telefe (acronym for Televisión Federal) is a television station located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The station is owned and operated by Paramount Global through Televisión Federal S.A. Telefe is also one of Argentina's six national television ...