Overview
- Investigators reconstructed Alejandro Zalazar’s final hours using security video and WhatsApp, confirming he returned alone at 10:01 p.m. on February 19 carrying an envelope and messaged a friend that he felt a sharp low mood.
- He was found dead the next day in his Palermo apartment with an IV in his right foot and items consistent with powerful anesthetics, with the autopsy citing pulmonary edema and toxicology still pending.
- New images reported by TN show ex-residents Delfina “Fini” Lanusse and Chantal “Tati” Leclercq at the building during the discovery, and a relative says one of them handled Zalazar’s phone after he had died.
- Separate from the death probe, a fraud case over alleged diversion of the anesthetic propofol led a judge to process Hernán Boveri and Lanusse on April 10, while prosecutors seized Leclercq’s phone and a tablet in related searches.
- Authorities have not confirmed a legal link between the death and the hospital diversion case, and the next key steps hinge on toxicology results and analysis of seized devices.