They said ‘You can’t come’ in the ambulance. I cried and begged the paramedic: Please, can’t you see how it is? Miguel Perea does not forget. “He can’t get in here. We’re going to Santa Bárbara Hospital (Soria), I’m sure they’ll let him in.” The paramedic closed the door. “Tere cried and shouted ‘Don’t leave me Miguel’”, remember her husband She didn’t see him again.
Maria Teresa Arino, 58 years old, He disappeared After arriving at the hospital on August 28. Her husband, who had to take a taxi, could not find her when she arrived. “A nurse half-smiled and said to me, ‘Your wife ran away.’ She couldn’t believe it: “Couldn’t they have stopped it?” She went out to look for him. Almost four months later, she still can’t find him. Teresa -Tere- is not here.
A shepherd claimed to have seen him a day later in the countryside, 18 kilometers from the hospital. I’m hurt and distracted. “No matter how much the region has been defeated, nothing happens,” complains Miguel, stepping back together with CASO ABIERTO, the event and investigation portal of Prensa Ibérica. Until his wife disappeared on August 28.. “It all started a week ago,” he says, as he embarks on a pilgrimage through different emergency services and medical consultations. His wife Teresa was not well.
five days ago
methodical, regular Teresa enjoyed the peace of her home. A lover of long readings, he “always had a book to read” and his herbs were “80 or 90 years old, a disgrace”. With a paused, quiet life; The change came on Tuesday, five days before she disappeared.
“I saw him very nervous.” Miguel associated this with the movement. They had to leave the flat they were renting. “The landlord told us we had to go. Everything was expensive in Soria, so I was looking for an apartment in the surrounding towns.” I found “We had two puppies, we had to leave them with an NGO because they wouldn’t let us have them. Neither there nor in any apartment I’ve ever seen. We are very sad, since they were born, we have been with them for seven years.“, says Miguel. “Nowe were moving in september 2“. Teresa began to fall.
Teresa began to look nervous. I had a panic attack, fear. “He said the police would arrest him for having dirty floors,” Miguel recalls.
“Tere, let’s go to the doctor, they’ll look at you and give you something,” I told her on Tuesday. It was the first visit for many of them to the health center that week.. “Doctor ‘what’s wrong with you?’ Teresa replied, “I’m so nervous, we’re moving…” Miguel had to intervene. He described the panic attacks of his wife for the first time as follows: “He says the police will take him away because the floor is dirty, which is not true. That the porter tricked us. He’s shaking, shouting, crying. He says I want to let him go.”
Miguel remembers every detail of this consultation: “The doctor told him to go to the family doctor the next day because he had nothing to give him.” They went. Miguel tried to calm him down until he came for a second visit the next day.
Three pills: improved
“We came back on Wednesday and they gave him 3 pills,” her husband says. Teresa had to take one a day. “Wednesday, Thursday and Friday… I was a little quiet in those days.” Trouble came on Saturday, “started again: let’s go, the police are coming…”.
Moving boxes upset him, even though they were arranged in a room. “The floor was dirty, he said they were going to arrest him.” It went into a spiral. “Her mother called and Tere answered in monosyllables. conversation between them usually lasts at least an hour“Get dressed, Tere, we’re going to the emergency room.” He was shaking. Miguel was going straight to the Santa Bárbara hospital.
What’s the name, which station?
“We arrived at seven, they took care of us at almost twelve.” In triage, the scene from the previous days was repeated: “What’s wrong with him?” Teresa couldn’t stop trembling. “Move…” she began. The man describes the doctor’s discovery as follows:
- Doctor: “What’s his name?”
“Teresa started looking at me nervously and said her name after a while,” Miguel says.
- Doctor: “What is the name of the Head of Government? ”
“He was looking at me like he wanted me to say something.” He didn’t answer.
- Doctor: “What year are we living in?”
“He was looking at me.” Silence fell. And after a while he replied: 2020“.
To the last question,What station are we at, Teresa? In spring, summer….? He started looking at me and after a while he said: winter“It was August 27, the early hours of the 28th.” The doctor suggested that she look at the clothes she was wearing. Tere lowered her head and didn’t speak anymore.”
The visit to the emergency room resulted in some tests and “everything is fine,” the man says. Miguel replied: “How are you going to discharge someone who can’t even remember their name?” They returned home.
Miguel put Teresa to bed. He woke up at 9:05. He’s in crisis again. The man called the ambulance that would take him to the same hospital. “Miguel, I’m going crazy. Please don’t leave me,” the woman pleaded. They did not allow him to accompany him. When her husband came, she was gone.
“We’re not keeping anyone here”
“I got out of the taxi and a nurse came straight up to me, half-smiling: ““His wife pushed a nurse and ran away,” he said. Miguel was shocked. “Couldn’t you stand here?” he continues, “you can’t keep anyone who doesn’t want to be here, he told me. I replied: there is no one who does not want to be there but can be there! It was the last time I saw my wife.“.
no answer
He started the search. “I called the taxi driver who dumped me and we started touring Soria,” the man explains. “we were hanging out and we did not see. It seems that he passed through the countryside, and we passed through the city.“.
Miguel went to the National Police station to file a complaint. “They told me to wait in case he comes back.” He spent time visiting places where his wife often went. “It was very homemade, so I would go home and a park, La Rosaleda, where he would sit and read a book if he was good.” He didn’t stop walking. “I was sure Tere was going home, I was wrong.”
a priest
No clues, no directions. Moreover 5,000 posters with a picture of the woman They covered the city with paper. and surrounding counties. A shepherd who came across one of them confirmed it. having seen Teresa walking in the field two days ago the day after it disappeared. Researchers gave it credibility. He was hurt, agitated, confused.
He was seen 18 kilometers from the hospital: “The man who saw it says his arm is bloody, missing and difficult to catch”
“She saw him Monday in a town called Chavaler.” It is 18 kilometers from the hospital to Soria. “He says he has a bloody arm. i’m lost He asked if he needed anything, if he was taking him somewhere.‘, says Miguel. Teresa was ‘difficult’.
Researchers and family agree: “It’s a busy area full of mushroom-seeking people, hikers, hunters. It fought off drones, dogs and divers that crashed into a nearby river., and nothing. It’s very rare that he doesn’t show up, we believe Tere wasn’t there.”
Miguel Soria toured Logroño, León. He asked about towns and villages that might get in Teresa’s way. “I ask the residents of those towns if they’re missing any clothes they hang on the street, because she’s wearing what she’s wearing.. He used to look at the orchards to see if they were mixed up, if he was missing something he had taken with him”.
Look, don’t stop. He hugs hope: “What if he gets in a car, is asked to leave at some point and gets confusedHe waits for Tere’s arrival. He edits his books, “most of them are about World War II, he was passionate about it” and he is interested in his plants. all is well, calm down how he likes to live.