The case that shocks Spain: the autopsy of little Olivia Gimeno, the girl found dead in Tenerife, was known

The autopsy performed on the girl Olivia gimeno revealed that the cause of death was due to acute pulmonary edema (a buildup of fluid in the lungs), according to sources at the Canary Islands Superior Court of Justice (TSJC). The director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Jesús Vega, explained that the preliminary report does not allow to know the causes that caused this edema, and now that we must wait for know the histopathological findings. The death, according to Vega, could be due to “death from suffocation, drowning, heart failure or poisoning.”

The autopsy on the body of the little girl ended around 3:00 p.m. this Friday at the Forensic Anatomy Institute and the results of toxicological, biological and histopathological analyzes are still awaited.

Likewise, the fingerprint test carried out at the Institute also confirmed that Body found in Tenerife waters last Thursday matched six-year-old Olivia.

His remains were found by the oceanographic vessel’s underwater tracking robot “ngeles Alvariño“At a depth of about 1,000 meters and about three miles from the coast of Tenerife. It was found inside a sports bag attached to an anchor.

Next to it was also found another sports bag also weighed down by the anchor, although empty.

The body was transferred to the ground and taken to the forensic anatomy center to be lifted. Since then, the “Ángeles Alvariño” have continued to search the area in an attempt to find his sister Anna and his father Tomás Gimeno.

The case that shocked Spain

April 27, Tomás Antonio Gimeno, 37, did not return his daughters at the time agreed with his former partner, and told him by phone that he would not see them again, nor. Terrified and knowing the impulsive temper of her ex, Beatriz Zimmerman filed a complaint immediately. From the first minute, the Civil Guard classified this disappearance as a high risk.

More than 40 days later, authorities found Olivia’s lifeless body. It was at the bottom of the sea inside a bag tied to the anchor of the father’s boat minors, the “Monster of Tenerife”.

The ship was found adrift, without an anchor, the day after its disappearance. Along with the bag that contained the six-year-old’s corpse, there was another similar one, but empty. There is speculation that Anna’s body may have been there, although this possibility has yet to be confirmed..

Now, after the discovery, the Spanish media have uncovered something that neither the family of the “Monster of Tenerife” nor Justice really sized: Gimeno had this idea in mind for a year.

“He had the idea that if anything went wrong with the custody issue after Beatriz separated, he would separate them from their mother. “, said the Spanish research program “Al Rojo Vivo”.

The research team of The sixth accessed the testimony of a friend of the father of the little girls: “He didn’t want her to be with his daughters. We talk all the time about indirect violence, but another type of violence that Tomás Gimeno also committed with his wife consists in putting a detective on him who followed him to find out who his daughters were with ”.

“Thomas seems to have prepared this ground for a whole year», Lamented journalist Pepa Romero.

According to the reconstruction made by the Spanish media, That night of April 27 could have been the time Olivia and Anna’s life was cut off. That day, security cameras at the marina in Puerto Deportivo de Santa Cruz, where Gimeno’s boat was moored, captured footage of the suspect loading the boat with several bags.

He had to make two trips to transport everything. I would embark twice. As the recordings show, he was alone, without the girls. When he returned, after ten past eleven that night, there was no sign of what he had loaded on the boat. Had he already eliminated the bodies of his daughters? In a few hours we would no longer hear from him, he had returned to boarding.

The next day, his boat – six meters long and equipped with a single cabin – was found adrift near the port of Güímar, leaving no trace of the man or his two young daughters. A day later, when the boat was found, police said they detected traces of blood on the boat, but found no evidence that it was from the minors. The (worst) suspicions are growing.

Gimeno had a history of impulsiveness and violence. One of the first acts of assault happened last August when he attacked Zimmerman’s new partner. He is a 60-year-old Belgian who the “monster of Tenerife” accused of being “too old” to raise his daughters, a situation which exasperated him. Identified as Eric D., the man was also his ex’s boss. This time he surprised them in front of a cafeteria. He started beating the man and then dragged his wife. But they decided not to press charges.

In December, the threats increased and it was there that he warned her for the first time that he would not see the girls again.. On this occasion, he alerted the authorities, who began to investigate him for gender violence. But they weren’t Gimeno’s only violent story. In the past eight years, according to the newspaper ABC, the man, whose fate is unknown, charged with various fights and criminal acts.

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