Where are Anna and Olivia? : the mystery that has paralyzed Spain for more than 50 days

Since Tuesday, April 27, the fate of Anna and Olivia, two daughters of one and six years, who were kidnapped by their own father on the Canary Island of Tenerife (Spain), who promised the mother of the minors that I would never see him or his daughters again.

More than 50 days have passed since then and it is still unclear what happened to the girls. The latest findings from the authorities suggest that Tomás Antonio Gimeno, father of the miners, he could have committed suicide with his daughters, whom he would have drowned in the sea.

Gimeno, 37, has long been separated from Beatriz Zimmerman, the mother of the girls. On the day he disappeared, he was with his daughters in the afternoon and was supposed to hand them over to their mother in the evening, but he never did.

On the contrary, He called her that night to tell her that he would never see him or the girls again. These threatening calls continued with other family members, to whom he said goodbye. Then he ran out of battery and they haven’t heard from him again.

It wasn’t the first time he had done it. This time, Beatriz informed authorities of what had happened and said that last December her ex-partner made similar threats, claiming that she would never see the girls again. At that time, he did not believe her words, nor did he notify the authorities. Since then, everything has been in a tense calm.

According to the police, IThe last time Gimeno was seen he was leaving in a boat from Puerto Deportivo Marina de la Cruz in Tenerife shortly after midnight.

The next day, His boat was found adrift near the port of Güímar, leaving no trace of the man or his two young daughters.

Port camera footage shows Gimeno arriving in his car around 11:30 p.m. and making several trips with bags and packages from the car to the boat. But the cameras, not even the guard that night who passed him, do not realize the presence of the girls.

After midnight, the man boarded his small pleasure boat, about six meters long and with one cabin.

The next day, when the boat was found adrift, police said there were traces of blood on the boat, but they found no evidence that they were among the miners.

This week, authorities discovered a Diving oxygen cylinder attached to a duvet and found at the bottom of the sea by the oceanographic vessel Ángeles Alvariño.

According to the Civil Guard, one of the possibilities is that the man used the tank and the cover to sink with them to the bottom of the sea.Now authorities are looking for the anchor and the eight-kilogram weight belt that Gimeno was carrying in the boat with the oxygen, which could also have been used to sink his daughters.

The researchers believe that with these elements, Giemeno prepared ballasts for himself and his daughters, And according to one of the hypotheses they manipulate, they locate the first ballast with the girls on the day of the disappearance – April 27 – between 9:00 a.m. and 11:30 p.m., the period during which he was on his boat before returning to port. .

Then he would make more calls to Anna and Olivia’s mother, until his phone ran out of battery and he went to a gas station to charge it. Then he returned to port and boarded his ship. Then he could have jumped into the sea with the eight-kilogram belt tied around his body, and in contact with the water, his cell phone would have been permanently switched off.

So far, this is the official hypothesis, in the absence of more data and to be able to find the bodies of Gimeno or the smaller ones. A version that Beatriz Zimmerman refuses to believe, arguing that “everything is a theater”.

This was said in an audio released by the Spanish media where The devastated woman remains hopeful that her daughters are okay, that their father has taken them away and that what he has found so far are traces left by him to deceive the authorities and be able to escape.

According to a spokesperson for the family, they ask Tomás Gimeno to return the girls, because “it could be resolved without much damage”, in letters and messages sent to the media in the hope that the man can see them .

They ask Gimeno to contact the family and show signs of “taking a first step to change everything that has triggered and maybe control has been lost”.

Meanwhile, the affair continues to arouse intrigue in Spain, where they hope to soon find out what happened to Anna and Olivia and what the outcome of this story will be.

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