A 35 -year -old man and Spanish nationality has died in London after being found floating in the Thames river as it passes through the English capital. It was found on Tuesday by a pedestrian, who warned emergency services. They managed to rescue him alive, but after being treated at the scene, he was transferred to a hospital, where he finally died.
As this newspaper has confirmed, it is Gonzalo Fuentes, a Malaga plastic artist that has lived for just over a five years in the British city. The circumstances in which it fell into the water of the flow of the flow of the river that crosses London is unknown.
Last Tuesday, around six in the afternoon, a pedestrian who walked by the river in the Greenwich district sighted the body floating in the river. The young man was still alive when he was rescued by London emergency services. The toilets attended him in the place where he was taken from the water, but not being able to stabilize it, he was transferred to a hospital. Already in the health center, he died.
After the notice to the relatives, several of whom has already moved to London, this Thursday his identity has been known, since so far it was only known that he was Spanish and born in Malaga.
Fuentes, a plastic artist born in 1991, graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Malaga in 2013. He was the son of a historic trade unionist of workers’ commissions in Malaga, also called Gonzalo Fuentes. His son moved months before the pandemic to London to work – in fact, he did it at the Somerset House Cultural Center. “We are in shock”, Explained a friend of the young man, who prefers not to reveal his identity.
Before his arrival in London, Fuentes were part of several collective exhibitions – the first in 2011 in Bilbao, where he participated in the International University Art exhibition Ikas Art – and since 2014, with a job in Malaga, he starred in several individuals. In 2017 he presented his work in a gallery in Colonia (Germany).
So far, the British authorities have not clarified the circumstances of death, waiting for the autopsy to see if it was an accident or there is another cause, as this newspaper has been able to know. His family has already contacted the Spanish consulate in the British capital to implement the repatriation procedures of the body.
