He took his family to a cave, told them that there were gifts inside, but he killed them there, the youngest son managed to escape

Thomas Handrick told his wife Silvia and his two sons Jakob and Jonas that he would take them to a picnic in a cave in Adeje, Tenerife, in the Canary Islands Archipelago in Spain, however, he killed her and her 10-year-old son, However, the miner managed to escape the race and was found wandering miles away in a nearby town.

Jonas, the 7-year-old survivor, traveled to Germany with his mother and brother on Monday, to visit his father, who lives on the island of Tenerife. The couple was separated, but they were on a recurring vacation with their father.

On Tuesday, her father took them to a nearby mountain, but in a low-traffic area. There, he explained, he attacked them and ended his life. The sources of the investigation told the local media that when they found the bodies, they witnessed a "carnage".

Inside this cavity occurred the aggression that upset the world, because Thomas brutally hit Silvia and Jakob. Jonah threw a stone on his father and fled instinctively.

Jonas walked for hours to prevent his father from finding himand that, fortunately, was helped by a neighbor from the neighborhood of La Quinta who found it disoriented and with scratches.

After being found, a Dutch woman named Annelies B. he offered to talk to Jonas and protected him at home for a whole day, while the police clarified the case.

Jonas managed to escape and, as he told Annelies, he had decided to get away from the road that he had borrowed so that his father would not find him, He told her that her father had beaten her mother, leaving her bleeding on the ground and without teeth.

For several hours he wandered alone in an area he did not know.. He was lucky enough to meet neighbors in the area, who do not speak German, however, they did not understand what was happening at the beginning. While the child was shocked and upset, they looked for someone to translate their words.

"I do not speak perfect German," Annelies told the Spanish press, but that was enough to understand the tragedy experienced by Jonas. "I did not release a tear to make the child feel comfortable"he explained. Thanks to that, she began to trust her and "little by little she was telling what
That had happened. "

The boy told him that his father had rented a car, prepared sandwiches to spend the day in the fields and had headed for a steep area.in the middle of the ravines. Once in front of the cave, he told them that he had Easter gifts for them. Once they entered, he started beating them. According to Annelies, Jonah saw the badault: he left his mother bleeding and without teeth.

The translator also revealed that the child had told him: "I preferred life to Easter gifts".

After Jonah's testimony, they went to the sleeping father's house.but when he was arrested He did not cooperate with the authorities when they asked him where his family was.at. Thomas Handrick showed injuries and bruises on his hands.

According to the EFE news agency, Juan Salvador León, government delegate to the Canary Islands, badured that the attack could have been premeditated and that Thomas Handrick would have attacked his wife and his eldest son with stones. Jonas does not know yet that Silvia and Jakob are dead.

El País reported that Thomas Handrick, who had been arrested, refused to testify before a judge, which is why the Magistrate of Arona's No.1 Women's Violence Court issued a bail order without bail against the alleged murderer, charged with two crimes: murder and attempted homicide against Jonah. The child remains under the tutelage of the Canary Islands government while his grandparents will come to Germany to ask for custody.