The UCO searches with a backhoe in a railway tunnel between Baeza and Utiel for the two missing day laborers

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The elite unit of the

has incorporated a

to find the two African seasonal workers who disappeared in 2013 and 2021 after arguing with their employer, Ginés Valiente, in Villacarrillo (Jaén).

The working conditions to which he subjected them prompted the two young men to stand up to him and since then, with a difference of eight years, nothing has been heard from them.

The

(UCO) is examining, since Monday, an area where the old railway route between

was located and a backhoe is moving the ground, sources from the investigation told EL MUNDO.

It is a very large extension, so the forecast is that the work will last for several days because the agents intend to examine it to the millimeter.

In this sector there is an inaccessible tunnel, since it is full of large stones that have fallen off, whose inspection is key.

Inside there is access to galleries.

This new action joins a wide range whose cornerstone is the conviction of the investigators that the head of the day laborers has the answers about his whereabouts.

The UCO began registering, last September, some properties of Ginés Valiente and then 'combed' his 'La Moratilla' farm in search of the bodies of the Senegalese

(of whom nothing is known since January 2021) and the Malian

(disappeared in December 2013).

The registration of this 7,000-square-meter olive estate was crucial since neither of the two laborers was ever there.

They worked in another field owned by their boss.

An irrigation pond in a nearby municipality was also emptied three weeks ago.

Later, the agents searched Valiente's house and now they are focusing on the disused railway tunnels of the old Baeza-Utiel line and on the land that surrounds it.

The disappearance of Tidiany Coulibaly prompted an investigation.

In January 2014, in full investigation, the agents gave a dog the worker's bag to sniff and then let him loose in La Moratilla.

Tidiany never worked on that farm.

The animal

with insistence.

For investigators, he was alerting them to the presence of possible biological remains.

The dog also found some earmuffs from the day laborer with organic remains from Ginés, for which he was arrested.

However, after the trial the court concluded that the circumstantial evidence was weak and that there was no direct evidence.

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Eight years later history repeated itself.

Ibrahima disappeared after arguing with Ginés over his terrible working conditions.

He set himself up as a spokesman for the gang.

Just like Tidiany.

He was determined to quit his job and go to Cartaya (Huelva) with another friend to pick oranges.

Since then, nothing has been heard from him.

The UCO activated the investigations at the time of the complaint and in mid-September, when Ginés believed the investigation had stopped, he went to Villacarrillo to search the house where the day laborers lived, a garage and his company.

The agents are convinced that Ginés has

they need and they wanted to ask him some questions but he, despite the fact that he is not charged, called his lawyer and kept silent.

The current investigation, that of the disappearance of Ibrahim, is in the hands of the

, whose head - who keeps the proceedings secret - awaits the indications and evidence presented by the UCO agents to, if necessary, considers it necessary, to call him to testify as an investigated for both disappearances.

Valiente portrayed himself in 2014 in a statement to Interviú when he was waiting for the sentence for the disappearance of the first worker.

«These kids inspire me compassion, but deep down nobody forces them to be here and they will be nomads or whatever they want to call them, but they have money, because they don't spend and we even give them the clothes they wear.

There are our people who are having a hard time and are unable to ask for a kilo of chickpeas, but these people stand in line a thousand times to ask (...)

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