Investigations Tomás Gimeno's mobile route and the rest of the ship, key
Key The Civil Guard focuses on the two hours in which he was alone with his daughters at home
The car of Tomás Gimeno, the man from Tenerife who disappeared with his one and six-year-old daughters after warning his ex-wife that he would never see them again and going into the sea with his boat, has joined the ocean and the man's house as another of the main scenarios in which the Civil Guard works.
The agents have taken samples of the vehicle that Tomás left parked in the port on the evening of April 27 after not returning the girls with their mother,
Beatriz
, and have sent them to be analyzed, as sources have specified in this newspaper. Of the investigation.
The Civil Guards trust that the results of this examination will help to clarify what happened to Tomás and his daughters Anna and Olivia.
The last time there is evidence that the three were in the vehicle was around 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday 27, when Tomás and the girls said goodbye to his parents after spending the afternoon together.
The man went home with the girls, whom no one saw again.
In this time, the agents of the Organic Unit of the Judicial Police of the Civil Guard of Tenerife, in charge of the investigations, have searched up to three times the house of Tomás and the more than 2,000 meters of land that surround it.
From there, they have taken numerous samples, mainly in the bathroom of the house that are already in the laboratory.
Those that have to do with DNA will be sent to Madrid for analysis, while the study that only affects fingerprints will be carried out in Tenerife.
At the moment, the same sources consulted report, no visible results have been obtained in the house or on the ground, so analyzing the biological remains is essential for the progress of the investigations.
The search continues incessantly by land, sea and air and is currently focused on the south of the island of Tenerife, next to La Gomera.
The agents are following the flow of the ocean currents, for which they made, together with experts, a meticulous study.
Depending on the area in which the ship appeared - empty and adrift - the agents have traced an itinerary following the evolution of the currents since Wednesday 28, the day on which the mother of the minors denounced that Tomás did not had returned.
The search device includes seven vessels -three from the Armed Institute and one from Maritime Rescue-, two helicopters and an airplane.
The Civil Guard has also mobilized one of its transoceanic vessels, a robust 70-meter vessel whose range of action is wider than conventional vessels.
At the same time, in the exclusive part of the investigation, a technical team from the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Armed Institute, who traveled to the Canary Islands, carefully examines the route of Tomás' mobile phone, the beacons of the ships that were close to where he was that night. he lost the track, all the repeaters as well as the security cameras of the port, of the roads and of the streets.
In addition, the agents are focused on limiting the two hours that Tomás spent alone at home together with the girls after returning from his parents' home before the cameras of the Marina de Tenerife port caught him at 9:30 p.m. transporting packages and suitcases alone from your car to your boat.
The investigation also reviews Tomás' bank movements to determine if he had money available in the previous days and if those withdrawals, if any, were made on an individual basis or would be related to the agricultural company of his family where he worked.
They work with the certainty that it was "usual" for the man to handle certain amounts of money between bank accounts given the solvency of the family business in which he worked.
The Civil Guard keeps all the hypotheses open although, at this moment and according to sources in the investigation, the one that Tomás could have fled is the one with the least traveled.
The last time Tomás Gimeno was seen was at 11.30pm on Tuesday going into the ocean with his pleasure boat.
Two hours earlier, a marina camera caught him making trips from his car to the boat.
He should have returned Anna and Olivia to their ex-wife Beatriz at 9:00 p.m. but he didn't.
Instead of taking them home, and to Beatriz's insistent calls, he told her that he would never see the girls again.
The characteristics of the case made the Civil Guard classify it as a high risk from the beginning.
The next day, the agents found Tomás's boat empty and adrift in an area with a depth between 400 and 1,000 meters that makes it impossible for the
Underwater Activities Group (GAS)
of the Armed Institute to
dive
.
On the surface, they found Anna's maxi-cosi.
Tomás and Beatriz separated in August of last year and in December she claimed that the father of her daughters had verbally threatened her.
However, at the last minute he decided not to file the complaint.
The Civil Guard, however, decided to monitor it ex officio.
Last March, the agents contacted the woman again and asked her if the threats had been repeated.
She told them no.
Tomás picked up his daughters on Tuesday at 5:00 p.m.
He arranged for Beatriz to take them back at 9:00 p.m.
The man was with the girls at their parents' house until 7:30 p.m.
During that time, he spoke several times on the phone with Beatriz.
Since he arrived at his chalet from his parents' house with his young daughters until the security cameras capture him in the Santa Cruz Marina, there is no record of his movements.
At 9:30 p.m., the port cameras recorded him alone, without Anna and Olivia, carrying suitcases and packages from his car to the pleasure boat he owned.
Tomás then made a first voyage to the high seas.
Beatriz had called him half an hour before.
He told her that he had taken the girls to dinner and would take them with him later.
Then he warned her that he would never see them again and later reassured her.
Tomás returned from the high seas at 11:30 p.m. and went to a gas station to buy tobacco and a charger for his mobile.
Later, he asked the port guard to charge his cell phone.
Tomás went back into the sea and there he lost track of it.
Well into the morning, he sent messages to his family and friends in a farewell tone, according to sources in the investigation.
Earlier, around 1:30 a.m., he had spoken with Beatriz in a calm tone, which made the woman calm down and think that her daughters were sleeping at Tomás's house and that the next day she would return them.
When it had not yet dawned, it was Tomás's relatives and friends who alerted Beatriz.
They informed him that the man had sent them goodbye messages.
At 06:00 on Wednesday, the girls' mother went to the Civil Guard to report the events.
.
Tomás went back into the sea and there he lost his track.
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