Tenerife crime: new clue rekindles possibility Tomás Gimeno escaped

The Tenerife crime case. that shocks Spain and the world. has a new chapter after the Spanish Civil Guard found a new clue that revives the possibility that Tomás Gimeno is alive and escaped after committing the murder of his daughter Olivia and presumably that of Anna, the youngest, whose fate is still unknown. The search for the murderer and his youngest daughter at sea continues despite the ship’s close to shutting down.

The new hypothesis of the Spanish Civil Guard maintains that Gimeno threw his cell phone in the sea and then continued to sail, as reported to local media. This possibility arises because so far the scans carried out in the demarcated area on the basis of the repeating antennas of the human telephone have not yielded results. So, based on the new line of research, widened the search area to approximately 9.5 kilometers from the coast.

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If the Civil Guard’s hypothesis were true, the investigation would take a resounding turn given that there would be the possibility that Gimeno, after killing his daughters, escaped. Faced with this eventuality, the authorities not only enlarged the search area of ​​the ship but also they issued an international arrest warrant.

For their part, Civil Guard agents reported that after the sixth search of Tomás Gimeno’s home, no pain reliever or sedative was found that it would have been assumed he could have administered to his daughters before the ‘removal.

Tomás Gimeno, 37, disappeared with his daughters Anna, one year old, and Olivia on April 27. To his ex-wife, Beatriz Zimmermann, he said: “You will never see them again”. Then he allegedly killed the girls on his farm and dumped their bodies into the sea in a preconceived plan to cause his ex-partner the greatest pain.

In recent years, Tomás has called his former partner “humiliating and degrading treatment” with “disqualifying, offensive and scandalous comments,” investigators said.

At the beginning of June, the oceanographic vessel ngeles Alvariño located Olivia’s lifeless body inside a sports bag attached to an anchor, 1,000 meters deep in the search area in front of Puertito de Güímar, where the geolocation of the feminicide’s cell phone was lost.

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The oceanographic vessel continues its research

The oceanographic vessel plans to continue to search for Anna and Tomás Gimeno until the underwater robot it is equipped with definitely breaks, as the newspaper reports Spanish.

the robot Liropus 2000 It is at the limit of its capacity due to having been subjected for so long to the pressure exerted by the water at a depth of a thousand meters, therefore it requires maintenance work to be operational again, which will mean weeks of interruption of the sweep. .

For his part, the delegate of the Spanish government to the Canary Islands, Anselmo Pestana, confirmed on social media that the vessel would remain in the search area on the coast of Tenerife, and said that “we must not lose hope that more indications or evidence can be found which point to something else” regarding Anna and Tomás Gimeno.

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