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Friday, November 27, 2020 - 15:05

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The crime of

Miriam, Toñi and Desireé

always returns, in one way or another, despite the fact that he was tried and sentenced on September 5, 1997 with the sonorous -and unbearable for the families- absence of

Antonio Andamientos

, the most wanted fugitive since the bodies of the adolescents were found on January 27, 1993, two and a half months after their disappearance.

The savage

murder and torture

of the Alcàsser girls was a huge social upheaval due to their cruelty and their media coverage, but it was also tied to conspiracy theories that, to this day, still drag.

The discovery in 2019 of the

bones of a phalanx

next to the grave in which they were buried and the confirmation, 28 years later, that they belong to one of the girls, Miriam, has not only revived the case but has also in evidence the seams of an investigation that, perhaps, lacked rigor.

The agents of the Judicial Police of the Civil Guard proceeded to lift the corpses in January 1993

under pressure and at night

and forgot to take photographs of the graves, an unthinkable mistake nowadays that gives an idea of ​​the haste with which they worked.

Another addition that fueled the conspiracies was the fact that Miriam and Desireé's autopsies confirmed that limbs were missing.

The finding of the phalanx, therefore, serves to support the arguments that many maintain that there were parts of the investigation that were botched.

Despite this, it would be unfair to

ignore the lack of resources

with which the investigators worked at the time and the judicial and social urgency that was imposed on the matter.

This new chapter - which does not compromise the backbone of the murders - once again sets

Fernando García

, Miriam's father on

fire

.

«After 28 years some visitors arrive and find the bones.

I am convinced that someone has put them there.

They don't go alone.

It is not an error.

I'm sure.

This is crazy, "he says annoyed but more restrained than years ago.

He is resigned.

He has no intention, he says, of asking the court for the remains.

What for? He wonders.

«

I carry my daughter in my thoughts every day.

I'm not going to ask for anything,

"he adds.

He immediately rewinds and unfolds the crusade that led him to visit many television sets led by the journalist Juan Ignacio Blanco, now deceased, warning of another hypothetical scene in the deaths that did not pass through either Angles or Miguel Ricart, the only one convicted by the crimes that he left prison in 2013 after serving 20 years in prison.

«I already did what I had to do at the time with my successes and my mistakes.

What can I do more?

Of course, García sends a message: «

The case should be reopened

, that the judge or the prosecutor ask to know where the bones came from because of course they were not there before.

The pit was thoroughly sealed, "he concludes.

The court to which he refers is number 6 of Alzira, whose titular magistrate has an open case because there is a request against Antonio Andamientos, who has not been located and remains

unaccounted for

.

After the issuance of a documentary in which the sailor of the ship in which Angles allegedly fled from Spain claimed that he

locked the fugitive in a cabin

to hand him over to the authorities when he made landfall in Ireland (apparently he escaped by jumping into the sea), the magistrate issued a letter rogatory to take a statement from him.

Him and the rest of the crew.

It was in February of this year.

The case returned to the foreground for information.

The head of the ship

City of Plymouth

and the sailors have already been questioned by the Group of Fugitives of the National Police Corps, which is the one who tirelessly searches for Angles.

Their testimonies have been incorporated into the proceedings.

Researchers continue to work today with the hypothesis -some with the conviction- that Antonio Angles is alive.

The truth is that it is a mystery if he is or died swallowed by the rough waves of the sea before reaching the Irish port since he jumped from the ship only with

a life preserver one cold night in late January

.

Now, the bones found are also under the control of this court, which has made them available to the family.

His find was screeching.

It was on June 24, 2019 when, with the recently released

Netflix

documentary

'El Caso Alcàsser'

, a truck driver from Piles (Valencia) decided to make a pilgrimage to the lonely place in La Romana where the girls were murdered.

He did it with his girlfriend to, he said then, put flowers by the grave.

While eating a sandwich, he found the phalanx.

He wrapped it in aluminum foil and rushed to the Oliva Civil Guard headquarters to deliver it.

Few bet that it was the remains of one of the girls.

But a year later,

DNA testing

has shown that this was not the case.

The bones and the subsequent confirmation that they are from Miriam

reopened the wounds when everything seemed to be calm

and brought with them new storm winds in a matter that in these years has always been accompanied by fires, theories far removed from what the judgment and upstarts who wanted to take advantage of families with more or less luck.

The bungling that he always denounced and a few inconsistencies in the investigation led Fernando García to think that there could be

more people involved

, including important personalities.

This vision confronted him with the rest of the families, and even made him ask that the trial against Miguel Ricart, the only one detained and convicted, be canceled, because that would mean closing the case.

The sentence made it clear that Angles and Ricart, only they, raped, tortured and killed the girls after picking them up while hitchhiking to get to the nightclub where their institute was holding a party.

Ricart confessed it, although shortly afterwards he said that he did so under alleged torture.

His account coincided with the facts.

Another thing was the expertise

when the bodies turned up.

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