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Four adults and a minor arrested for the kidnapping and murder of a man who appeared tied up and burned in Tenerife

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Four adults and a minor arrested for the kidnapping and murder of a man who appeared tied up and burned in Tenerife

The Civil Guard arrested in Tenerife the five suspected perpetrators of the recent violent homicide of a middle-aged man, whose body was found at the beginning of October inside the Abades tunnel, showing obvious symptoms of having suffered an injury. violent deathtied up and partially burned, in addition to incised stab wounds in various parts of his body.

The Civil Guard, as part of Operation Abadía, arrested five people, four adults and a minor, all residents of the island of Tenerife, as alleged perpetrators of this crime of homicidefollowing an investigation carried out by the Organic Unit of Judicial Police (UOPJ), of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Command.

Officers had difficulty identifying the body because the action of the fire prevented facial recognition and fingerprint recognition. Neither the initial verification of missing people made it possible to identify the body even if collaboration with agents of the Provincial Judicial Police Brigade of the National Police made it possible to determine a possible identity. On behalf of the UOPJ, the collaboration of the Criminalistics Service of the Civil Guard, based in Madrid, was requested for the identification of the body, to which the necessary samples were sent to carry out the complete identification.

After identifying the body, the investigation focused on people likely to have links with the victim and after an exhaustive analysis of all the information, as well as careful operational and technical work, the IDENTIFIER full of all participants in the homicide, who were related to each other and to the victim’s environment.

The investigation focused on collecting evidence, clues and remains that could prove without doubt the participation of suspects. Home searches and visual technical inspections of three vehicles were carried out, successfully collecting sufficient evidence and evidence to link the suspected perpetrators to the homicide.

Kidnapped for several days

During the investigation, it was confirmed that the victim remained kidnapped for several days in a northern municipality until his transfer to the southern area of ​​the island of Tenerife, where he was eventually murdered and burned with gasoline. The purpose of this transfer and cremation of the body was to attempt to make it difficult to identify the body and its connection to those currently detained.

The Citizen Security Unit (USECIC) of the Civil Guard Command of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the citizen security units of the 1st, 4th and 5th companies of the Civil Guard, as well as the Central Cynological Service, which traveled from Madrid to the island of Tenerife, to collaborate in determining the location and transfer of the victim.

The investigation was coordinated by the investigating court number 4 of Granadilla de Abona and the provincial prosecutor’s office.

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