A man arrested in Cartagena for taking two nieces from Yemen and kidnapping for eight years

The National Police has detained a 54-year-old male of Yemeni nationality who allegedly held his two nieces, one of them a minor, kidnapped for eight years when he left their country of origin with them in 2014 without authorization.

The arrest has occurred in the town of

(

) where he lived with two daughters and two nieces since he arrived in

in March 2020. The arrested, after being brought to justice, has entered prison.

The police investigation began in September last year, when the coordinator of an NGO in the Murcian town of Cartagena, which welcomes and provides international protection to people in situations of vulnerability or exclusion, filed a complaint with the National Police warning that four women of a host family they lived in full submission to the man.

According to the police, in March 2020, the man and four women of Yemeni origin, two of them daughters -one minor- and the other two nieces -one of them also a minor-, arrived in Spain through the

, and they were welcomed in the

. On the whereabouts of the mother of his daughters and the parents of his nieces, the man had given different versions when he was questioned.

The four women only interacted with other women from the NGO, and always in the presence of the detainee, who had to give his approval for them to answer the questions that were put to them.

From the results of the home visits, the agents observed that basic foods such as legumes, cereals, fruit and others were stored in the room of the man, who was the one who managed and administered them.

The women detained, after the police intervention.

The four women presented symptoms of malnutrition and extreme thinness and in addition, the detainee removed all televisions, radios and any similar device from the house, claiming that the girls did not need to have any type of contact with the outside.

The man, of Yemeni origin, had left his country together with his daughters and nieces in 2014. Thus, he began a journey in which they toured different countries for years:

;

, where he spent 15 days;

, where he stayed for about a year;

, where he requested asylum and stayed for four months;

, where they accepted their asylum and from where they left, after almost two years, for

. In the Turkish country, when he went to the

consulate

to renew his passport, he was notified that he had a complaint for the kidnapping of his two nieces. To prevent the young women from being withdrawn, he flew to

.

The agents, through

, confirmed that the mother of the two nieces, who was also the wife of the brother of the investigated, was still looking for their daughters. The mother was located through the

at the

in

, which stated by videoconference that her brother-in-law took her daughters in 2014 and that he had not known anything about them for eight years. He also claimed that he did not know where his brother-in-law obtained the financial means to survive.

At the home, the agents were able to verify the poor living conditions, windows lined with propaganda and mattresses in precarious health conditions, among other precariousness.

In the registry carried out, about 5,000 euros in cash and approximately 2,500 American dollars have been intervened.

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