The magistrate maintains that Gimeno was “with complete certainty” the author of the murder and rules out the intervention of third parties
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 15 (EUROPA PRESS)
The Court of Violence against Women Number 2 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has issued a provisional dismissal order in the case of the girls Anna and Olivia until their alleged murderer, their father, Tomás Gimeno, is located.
The order, signed by Judge María de los Ángeles Zabala and made public this Tuesday, indicates that Gimeno was “with total certainty” the author of the murder and the intervention of third parties is ruled out.
The report of the Civil Guard concludes that Gimeno is “unaccounted for or disappeared at sea” so it is appropriate to file the case until it is located since he is the only one accused of the death of his daughters.
According to the order, the death of the girls, aged one and six, respectively, was “violent”, compatible with mechanical suffocation due to suffocation and acute pulmonary edema and occurred on the night of April 27, between 8:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. , on his estate in Igueste de Candelaria.
Gimeno’s murder plan begins on the 26th when he leaves his car, an Alfa Romeo Giulia, at the family estate in Guaza (Arona), under the pretext that he is going to spend a few days there so he can use it with his friends.
The next day he withdraws a total of 2,700 euros from two different bank accounts and tries to do the same through an online bank but fails because he cannot provide the postal code.
That afternoon she agrees with the girls’ mother, Beatriz Zimmermann -who had de facto custody- that she will be with them between 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., so she goes to a nursery school located in Radazul Alto where her daughter older receives support classes and works with her partner.
“REMEMBER ME FOR WHAT I WAS AND NOT FOR WHAT I DID, PLEASE”
There he hands him a box with packing tape and tells him not to open it until 11:00 p.m. but his girlfriend decides to open it at 5:20 p.m. and finds 6,200 euros in bills and a farewell letter with no reference to the girls and with expressions like “Remember me for what I was and not for what I did, please.”
According to the judge, the letter was written before 5:00 p.m. and was intended to be read after 11:00 p.m., with the crime already consummated.
After leaving the Radazul school, she went to her parents’ home in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and later left her eldest daughter in tennis classes to later go to the marina and do starting tests with her boat, which shows that he wanted to make sure it would work.
Thus, after picking up his daughter from tennis, he returned to his parents’ house for a visit and said goodbye to the father in an “unusual” way and that later sounded like a farewell.
From there he left in his car and drove at high speed until he reached the town of Las Caletillas, traveling 14 kilometers in just six minutes at a speed of no less than 140 kilometers per hour.
A neighbor of the Igueste de Candelaria house confirmed that between 7:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. voices were heard from one of the girls saying “daddy”.
LEAVES THE HOUSE WITH HIS DAUGHTERS ALREADY DECEASED
Tomás Gimeno left the house at around 9:00 pm and with the deceased girls, whom he wrapped in towels, put them in garbage bags and in turn in sports bags and deposited them in his car.
He removed possible evidence of the murder, such as the duvet cover from his bed, and left for Santa Cruz de Tenerife with the bodies of his daughters in his car. He stopped for a few minutes at his parents’ house, where he secretly left his dog, two sets of keys. from the Alfa Romeo that was at the Guaza farm and two credit cards with their codes, and returned to the Igueste de Candelaria house.
There he picked up some paintings that his father had presumably asked him for – so he told the girls’ mother – and called her telling her that they were going to eat something first and that he would take them to his house in Radazul.
Although he had promised Beatriz Zimmermann to hand over the girls at 9:00 p.m., he went with his car to the Santa Cruz de Tenerife marina and loaded four packages on his boat, called ‘Esquilón’, among which were the bags of sport with their daughters inside.
According to what the security cameras of the port collect, one of the packages coincides with the red ‘Power paddle’ sports bag located by the ship Angeles Alvariño and another with the ‘maxi cosi’ found adrift in the sea.
Likewise, another package was very similar to the ‘Kaitt’ padel bag located by Ángeles Alvariño and a fourth was a conventional plastic bag.
At around 9:40 p.m. the boat set sail and made two stops while he communicated with the girls’ mother telling her that he was not going to see either Anna or Olivia anymore, even when a Civil Guard agent got on the phone.
Around 10:30 p.m. and in a very deep area, he dumped the sports bags with the bodies of his daughters tied to an anchor by means of a chain and a rope.
I COULDN’T LET THEM GROW UP WITHOUT THEIR FATHER
Later, he called Beatriz again and told her that he couldn’t allow the girls to grow up without their father and that’s when the trace of the cell phone was lost because it ran out of battery.
Upon returning to the port, he comes across a Civil Guard boat who proposes a sanction given that mobility was limited until 11:00 p.m. due to the state of alarm.
He told the agents that he intended to spend the night on the ship but, finding no compatible charger at the port watchman’s office, he drove his car to a gas station to buy one.
Shortly before 12:30 a.m., he set sail again with his ship and made several calls to Beatriz, to whom he told her that “they would be fine” with him because he had “a lot of money to live on” and that he would go “far away” and never see them again. watch.
In addition, he sent farewell messages to some friends and even offered one of them his material goods such as the boat, a quad and his motorcycle and his father told him that he “felt sorry for him” but that “finally” he would be “okay”. “And how I wanted. The last message was sent at 02.27 hours.
On June 10, the ship Ángeles Alvariño locates the two sports bags, one broken and empty and the other with Olivia’s body.
Anna’s body was never located but it is believed that it was inside the red and black bag and the zipper broke so the body came out and was left at the mercy of the tides.
Tomás Gimeno’s body has also not been located, but it must have been very close to the area where the compressed air bottles were found, but it changed position due to the effect of currents and tides.
