Disappearance New letter from the mother of the disappeared girls in Tenerife: "Time stopped four weeks ago"
Search A ship with a sonar and an underwater robot heads to Tenerife to search for the missing girls at the bottom of the sea
Four weeks ago
Tomás Antonio GC
did not return his daughters at the time agreed with his ex-partner and told him by phone that he would never see them again, nor would he. From minute one, the
Civil Guard
classified this disappearance as a high risk and since then it has not stopped searching by land, sea and air for little
Olivia and Anna
, six and one year old.
Throughout this time, several hypotheses have been kept open, from the kidnapping and escape - hence the court that is instructing the case issued an international search warrant - to a parricide. The investigation is one of the most complex that the
Central Operative Unit (UCO)
of the
Civil Guard
has had to face in recent years
, which intervened in the resolution of the cases of
Diana Quer
,
Asunta Basterra
or
Gabriel Cruz
.
Not so much because of the time that has elapsed, just a month, which has been endless for the girls' mother, who despite the anguish and uncertainty does not lose hope of embracing them again, but because of the complication involved in looking for clues in the vastness from the ocean, which is where the father was lost. There have been multiple procedures carried out, starting with the tracking of
Tomás'
mobile
, through a duplicate of his card, to the analysis of different cameras that were able to record his last movements before disappearing.
His bank movements have also been analyzed, in case he was able to make a significant cash withdrawal, and his home in
Igueste de Candelaria
(
Tenerife
)
has been registered up to five times
with the help of two dogs trained to search for biological remains, as well as his car and his boat.
"It is not the same to leave the comfort zone and another to change the continent"
Two months before disappearing with his daughters,
Tomás Gimeno
sent some messages to his ex-wife that today take on a different meaning. "It is one thing to leave the comfort zone and another to change the continent. How easy to accept that you lose a family with whom you have lived a lifetime. To lose control of your daughters," said the father of the missing girls in
Tenerife
, after that
Beatriz Zimmermann
sent him some self-help videos to help him cope with the separation.
"How easy to accept that you lose a family with whom you have lived a lifetime. Losing control of your daughters," continued Tomás' message, as revealed this Wednesday by
Joaquín Amills
, president of
SOS Disappeared
and spokesperson for
Beatriz
en
Espejo Público.
Two critical hours
The research focuses on two critical hours, which passed since
Thomas
said goodbye to his parents, accompanied by girls, about 19.30 pm until the cameras
Marina
in
Tenerife
they recorded entering these facilities at 21.30.
There, a watchman saw him alone, without the company of the girls, loading suitcases and bags onto his boat, with which he went sailing twice. When he was returning to port after his first foray into the sea,
Tomás
was approached by the
Civil Guard
and proposed for sanction, since he was skipping the curfew that was set at 11:00 p.m. at the time.
The agents inspected the boat and found nothing suspicious at the time, as the mother had not yet reported the disappearance of her daughters.
Once at the port,
Tomás
took his car and went to a nearby gas station to buy a mobile charger because he was running out of battery.
Then, he put to sea around 00:30 on April 28 with an unknown destination, which the researchers are trying to reconstruct through the mobile signal.
What happened until about 17 hours later the empty boat was found adrift?
Where were the girls then?
Were you able to put them on your boat hidden in some way, or in another boat, in which case you would have had to have the collaboration of third parties and with little time margin?
An underwater robot to track the bottom of the sea
Hardly any details of the investigations have transpired -the court keeps the summary secret-, and what is known is that neither in the house nor in the
Igueste de Candelaria
farm
, nor in the boat or in
Tomás's
car
, they found the
Civil Guard
dogs
conclusive evidence.
Now the hopes that the research will not end up running aground are pinned on the sonar and the underwater robot that a ship from
the Spanish Institute of Oceanography will
incorporate in the coming days to track the seabed off the southeast coast of
Tenerife
.
A task that seems very complex, given the depth of the sea in that area, that it is volcanic soil and, therefore, irregular, and because of the breadth of the area to be analyzed, following the route that
Tomás
made in his first incursion into the sea on that fateful night from April 27 to 28.
Four robot portraits
Through social networks, the family has disseminated four robot portraits of what
Tomás Gimeno
might look like today
.
He can be seen with a cap and a long beard, with glasses, with a mask and with the image he presented before disappearing.
The sign reads: "Wanted,
Tomás Gimeno
" in four languages, and provides two telephones to provide any information:
+34 642 650 775
and
+34 649 952 957
.
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