The young Alan Calabrese, 22, explained on Instagram that he had suffered a “tremendous depression” for months.
The young Argentine athlete Alan Joel Calabrese, 22, was found lifeless this Sunday at his home in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Mataderos, where he lived with his parents. A day before, he had written a text on Instagram as a farewell, which suggests that the young man committed suicide to end the “suffering he had been feeling” for some time.
“Unfortunately today I could not take it anymore and I decided to turn off, close your eyes and say goodbye“wrote the rugby player, who was part of the Ciervos Pampa team, known for being the first club in Latin America openly inclusive with the LGTBI collective.
In his emotional publication, Calabrese addresses “all those people who were always in good times and bad” to say “thank you” and to ask them “sorry for doing it this way.” “My path ended here“, he sentenced next.
His farewell letter is accompanied by a photograph of him, in which he appears smiling. Regarding that smile, the young man points out that “it was the one that covered all the suffering that he had been feeling inside.”
Calabrese explains that he did his best to stay cheerful, but admits that he had been the victim of “a tremendous depression” for several months.
His father found him and called the police
According to the newspaper La Nación, a mobile unit of the Police of the City of Buenos Aires appeared at dawn on Sunday at the building where the family of the deceased young man lived.
His father explained to the officers that he had found his son hanging by the neck from a rope attached to a water pipe. According to his own testimony, it was he himself who untied it and lowered it to the ground, before calling the police.
According to police sources consulted by the Argentine newspaper, the body did not at first glance show another sign of violence, so a cause of “investigation of suicide” was presented at the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office, an entity that also requested the delivery of the rope allegedly used by the young man and of a mobile phone that he owned.