Two little girls were kidnapped by their father in Tenerife at the end of April. The body of the eldest, Olivia, was found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on June 10. The hope of finding Anna, her little sister, alive, is very slim.
A terrible drama. Thursday, June 10, the body of a child was found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, off Tenerife (an island in the Spanish Canary archipelago). It was that of Olivia, a six-year-old girl who has been missing for a few weeks, AFP reports. At the end of April, the young girl’s father had kidnapped him, along with his little sister, leaving “a farewell letter” addressed to his ex-partner. Since then, the two children were nowhere to be found.
Today, the search continues to find Anna, only one year old, as well as her father. The discovery of Olivia’s body nevertheless portends the worst for her little sister. Investigators have little hope of finding them alive.
“The most monstrous act”
In an open letter, taken up by The Sun, Beatriz Zimmerman, the mother of the little girls, paid a poignant tribute to her “little angels”. She described her ex-spouse’s gesture as “The most monstrous act anyone can do” and says he accepted the terrible idea that Anna is also dead. “As a mother, it pains me a lot that I couldn’t save their lives. I would have liked to be there, with them, to hold their hand and die together ”, she wrote, “But that couldn’t happen because Tomas (the father of the children, editor’s note) wanted me to suffer by searching for them relentlessly and for the rest of my life. That was the reason he left me alive. “
Judge Priscila Espinosa Guterriez, in charge of the case, says the evidence shows the girls’ father had planned “To kill them in a planned and premeditated way to cause his ex-partner inhuman pain.” ” She adds : “He would have deliberately tried to create uncertainty as to the fate of his daughters by hiding their bodies on the ocean floor after killing them, choosing a location in deep water and away from the coast where he believed they would not. would never be found. “
This affair caused terror in Spain, to such an extent that Queen Letizia Ortiz publicly expressed “His pain and his sadness”.