The objects found on Monday were also located at a depth of around 1,000 meters, requiring specialized equipment from the IEO. Next to the sports bag in which Olivia was found, there was another bag, which was empty.Ĭivil Guard director María Gámez said on Tuesday that the search effort is “complex” due to the size of the area that’s being inspected.

The remotely operated vehicle made the discovery at around 1,000 meters below the surface, and three miles off the Tenerife coast. This vessel located an oxygen bottle and duvet cover belonging to Gimeno on Monday of this week, and also found the body of Olivia on Thursday. The Ángeles Alvariño, a research ship from the Spanish Oceanographic Institute (IEO) equipped with a sonar system and a remotely operated underwater vehicle, joined the search on May 30. Specialized air and sea units are participating in the search operation. Next to the sports bag in which Olivia was found, there was another bag, which was empty Investigators are following up on the theory that Gimeno was aided by one or more individuals to carry out a premeditated plan to kidnap his own daughters, according to sources cited by the news agency Efe. The children were visiting Gimeno, who reportedly told his ex-partner in a telephone conversation that night that she would never see the children again, but that he would take good care of them. A child safety car seat was also found floating in the sea, and the Civil Guard has confirmed that it belonged to Anna.

Traces of the father’s blood were located on board. Gimeno, 37, is believed to have taken the two little girls – Anna, one, and Olivia, six – on his boat, which was later found by the police off the east coast of Tenerife, in Spain’s Canary Islands. The search for the bodies of Anna and Tomás Gimeno is ongoing. The grim news was conveyed on Thursday to the mother and the relatives of the little girls. The vessel belonging to Tomás Gimeno, 37, was found drifting on the day after the disappearance of the three family members. The Canary Islands High Court and the Civil Guard confirmed the news yesterday, and reported that the body had been found on the sea bed in a bag, and weighed down by the anchor of her father’s boat. Search teams on Thursday located the body of Olivia Gimeno Zimmermann, a six-year-old girl who went missing on April 27 together with her one-year-old sister Anna.

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