• 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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