They arrest the main suspect in the disappearance of Enoc, the boy from Badalona kidnapped in Honduras: "I want them to get the truth out of him"

• Events A year and a half without a trace of Enoc, the 13-year-old boy from Badalona violently kidnapped in Honduras

Agner Vega

is already behind bars.

It took the

three years to arrest this Sunday the main suspect in the kidnapping of

the boy residing in

who was kidnapped in the Central American country on December 2, 2019 when he was 12 years old and whose whereabouts are unknown.

Vega's arrest occurred in the community of Atima, in the Honduran department of

The

He recalled on social networks that Vega "is on the list of most wanted criminals in our country, since the State Security forces directly involve him in the kidnapping and disappearance of Enoc."

The 42-year-old arrested today, for whom the minor's family had offered a

had a warrant for his arrest since December 4, 2020 for the crimes of

Specifically, according to the authorities, he is the leader of a demonized criminal gang

dedicated to armed kidnapping and contract killings in the coastal zone of Honduras.

Thus, this structure was made up of him and the brothers

who have been in pretrial detention since December 6, 2020 awaiting the trial to be held in March of this year.

DIPAMPCO spokesperson,

believes that her arrest will be key to finding the whereabouts of Enoc, who

to spend the holidays with his grandparents.

As soon as the arrest was made known, the boy's mother,

posted a video on her Facebook page, entitled

in which she acknowledged being "surprised and nervous".

He recalled that the capture is "something we have been waiting for three years," for which reason he asked the Honduran authorities to "please

in order to find out "what they did with my son and where they left him" and that "the full weight of the law falls on him.

In another video, she hoped that "he will confess everything he has done so that I know the whole truth and get out of this uncertainty that is killing me."

"I DO NOT LOSE FAITH THAT HE IS STILL ALIVE"

In statements to EL MUNDO, Chinchilla revealed that a contact from the Police Investigations Directorate (DPI) called her by phone to inform her of the arrest.

This capture is a "hope" that the main suspect in the disappearance of his son "speaks as long as the authorities work as they should", since, if not, "it will be like with the other two detainees who do not say anything" .

Enoc's mother

to decide if it is necessary for her to travel to Honduras.

Chinchilla recalled that

and remarks that he continues to hope that he is still alive: "

Likewise, he trusts that Vega's arrest will serve to reopen the case and try the three people arrested.

Chinchilla has not seen her son since the child, who had been living in Spain for nearly four years, traveled to Honduras on November 18, 2019 with his maternal grandparents to spend Christmas.

In the Central American country, he went to the house of his paternal grandparents in

a town in the city of

in the department of

in northern Honduras.

According to the police investigation,

the criminals suffocated him with a shoelace.

Then they waited for Enoch's uncle to arrive,

Precisely that day he had just received the money that his sister and mother of the child had sent him from Spain to pay the salary of the young neighbor who took care of him,

21 years old.

As soon as they arrived at the house, the criminals also killed

the boy's

Both the body of the grandfather and the uncle appeared half-buried next to the house, while that of the nanny was found four days later also with signs of violence.

However, to this day, Enoc, who was studying at the

​​has not yet appeared, nor is there any clue as to his whereabouts.

alias

one of the main suspects in the murder of the three people and the kidnapping of the child

, was arrested in a shopping center on December 5, 2019 .

On the day of the arrest, Meléndez, who was a neighbor of the family, carried in a backpack a pistol with which he could have committed the crime, a large number of light bulbs, as well as

Police suspect that he was going to spend several days hiding in the mountains watching the child while waiting to receive a ransom for him.

In addition, in a search of his house, also located in the Campo Elvir neighborhood,

Enoch's grandfather.

Initially, he was only arrested for the crimes of possession of a firearm for commercial use and illicit drug trafficking, for which he was sentenced to several months in jail, after which he was charged with the murders of his grandfather, uncle and wife. child's nanny and the child's disappearance.

He never revealed what he did with the minor

and went to the grave with the secret, since on December 12, 2020 he

on a beam, apparently after committing suicide in his cell located in module three of the prison. maximum security known as

in the Honduran department of

With his death, the search for Enoc became even more complicated, despite the fact that the brothers Juan José and Leonel Núñez Murcia, members of the criminal gang known as 'Los Pesperos', who would be involved in the triple murder, also remain in preventive detention. and in the kidnapping and that they were arrested on December 6, 2020. However, both suspects never confessed to the crime, so now, the only hope that Karina Chinchilla has is that the Honduran authorities make Agner Vega speak, taking into account He says that, to this day, the Office of the

and the DPI continue without finding a trace of the child, who already had a residence permit from Spain.

Karina Chinchilla indicates that she is still in Spain coping with this case with "good days and bad days" and

of reuniting one day with her only son who dreamed of being an architect and playing soccer.

She however, claims to be aware that she must "be prepared for any news".

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