Before Tino disappeared, he told his mother: “I have to go to Egypt to dig something”

named Celestine BridgeAlthough he is at home, they call him Tino in his close circle. He is 33 years old today. HE IS Friday, September 30, 2016, He was 28 when he disappeared. He was a plumber by profession, he had never experienced anything like this before, I did not take medicine “He was a healthy, sociable, friendly, hardworking kid”, says his father, “a funny lover of bikes, sports and cars”.

“I don’t know what happened to him. I just know he wasn’t well that day,” his mother, Maria, complains. husband He and Alfonso struggle five and a half years later to find the answers. there is little data may be disoriented at any moment. “We live by thinking about finding it. Finding it, whether it’s back or lying around, take it and let it rest, but at least find the cause and the truth.” Everything is clear, the only thing certain is that Tino, who lives with his family, is not there.

“Let’s go to the doctor”

That morning Tino woke up sad, confused, excited. He said unorthodox irrelevant things. “But Tinin, you’re a bit strange…” they told him at home. “It worried us,” his father recalls.

“He said there was a light in his chest and he had to go.” His father replied: “My mother is going to buy bread, we will go to the doctor when she comes.. Celestino said no to them. Alfonso began to prepare to take his son to the hospital, and when Maria returned, the young man was gone. “I didn’t even feel you were gone.” He disappeared in a stalemate.

Without documents, without money, without shoes, “I was wearing my house slippers”commemorates his father, “without saying goodbye”, that he parted with what he was wearing. His wife, Maria, is next to him, listening to him. I can not speak.

Shocked and with many doubts, They waited for their son to come home that afternoon. didn’t come back. They called unsuccessfully, “did not signal”. The first hours were waiting. Return.

The calm was broken that afternoon. The phone rang, it was Tino, from a booth. Maria took: “Where are you?” he asked. This He told her that the demons were in his house and that he had to go: “Mom, get out of here, there’s a devil in the house, go.” He cut himself off and they never spoke to him again.

There was no news of Tino, there would be no more. Alfonso and Maria went to the police station. National Police To make a complaint: male, 28 years old, 1.75 m, 75 kg. He is undocumented. At home, she’s wearing striped shorts, a white T-shirt, and these sneakers. Activated by alert lost.

The police station received a call from a woman informing her that she was there. A boy on the beach “says strange things”. He was. When they came, he was gone.

on the computer

Alfonso and María try to find something to guide them to help them understand what happened. “The previous days were normal, The only thing we noticed was that he spent a lot of time on the computer.: went out, ate, and went back to the room.” A computer that might have answers, but “never looked at by the National Police.”

The only new thing in Celestino’s life, Two months before he disappeared, he had cycled the Camino de Santiago and met a woman. “We don’t know anything about him, he told us he met a girl, she’s a Hindu.”

Investigators battered the coast of La Ñora (Villaviciosa, Asturias), a Marine Rescue helicopter joined in. They gave credibility to the woman’s testimony: It could have been him. Searching for her in the bushes, her father found another clue, “another woman told me she saw him driving down a road., the person asking where he went to the beach in Spain. account owned by dirty legs and mouth from eating blackberries. Disoriented,” recalls Alfonso, “it was wrong, because the way he asked was well known.”

“They searched the mountains, the coast, the coast: La Ñora, Spain (Villaviciosa, Asturias)… but they found nothing.” Investigations stopped, nothing more. There was no sign of the young man.

“I was trying to find out how the search was going, I was asking… A year and a half ago some agents told me to stop calling What They would have told me if something had happened,” complains Alfonso. “We realized we were looking for Tino.”

A track in Barcelona

His family is trying to move forward: “Sometimes I call Tino’s phone just in case, but nothing happens. He hasn’t picked up again,” says his father.

The silence is broken at a Gijón tobacco shop. “When I was two years old, a lady told me she saw Tino in Barcelona,” says María. “I was showing the photo to one woman and another said to me, ‘Oh, I saw that boy'”.

“I saw him, but he is not here. He told me on La Rambla in Barcelona. The woman was very confident, convinced. She said that she shuffled and the way she walked made her notice her. “. She recorded her face, “she saw this, she told me two years ago in December, a few days before Christmas.” Maria called the police and reported them, They told him the “we take notes” account. “Until today”.

His room looks solid. “He loved all the music there, especially rap,” his family says. “There will be a hundred records at home.” They also have papers and bicycles with them, great passions. “He loved the bike, grew up with it, enjoyed the pedals a lot.. There was no way or way that he did not know. I was going to Galicia, doing the Camino de Santiago…”.

They fight to tears: “If we had had this speech two years ago, we wouldn’t have been able to talk… We’ll go and fight as best we can. something happens, even if it’s bad and you understand… but it’s not living, neither yes nor no, neither good nor badThey look at the mountain, the beach, they look at Barcelona. It could be anywhere. They pray and shout that he is not forgotten: “Tino, where are you?”