Monday, March 14, 2022. 10:30 Francisco de Pablo -Francis -a 32-year-old unemployed man from Madrid- goes to the Hortaleza (Madrid) police station. Not his car, which is a blue Citroën C4.. He parked on Manizales street a hundred meters from the house. One minute walk, no more. He left a backpack in the vehicle; in this sportswear and all documents. “My car was stolen.” He gave all the details of the vehicle. He signed the petition and returned home. He disappeared a week later.
“I’ll be back in an hour, I’ll settle a matter,” he told a friend who played PlayStation at his home the day he lost track. It was six in the afternoon on March 21. He didn’t come back.
“Destroyed”, her mother Juana lives to find: “This is a nightmare with no end to it. I go to bed thinking about my poor son and wake up the same way.” cry for help. After about ten months of training, investigation stops. Your son is not here.
Agents discovered that Francis was immersed in conflict, drug dealings, threats, robberies.
“Something happened to him,” Juana sensed from the very beginning. “Francis would not have left of his own free will. No way, he wouldn’t leave his beloved dogs, family, friends… he wouldn’t go without money, clothes, paperwork,” he said.
police investigations Constituting the summary to which CASO ABIERTO, the events and investigation portal of Prensa Ibérica, accesses – supported the woman’s suspicions. agents They discovered that Francis was plunged into conflicting environments on drugs, threats, and robbery. The hypotheses from the start weren’t good: Investigators suspect that Francisco’s disappearance is a part of it. reckoning, crime, enforced disappearance. The man left the house to meet someone. Nobody knows who he is with.
Someone stole watches, colognes and 15,000 Euros of cocaine from his house.
His friend waited for Francis at home, and he never came back. His environment and friends trusted him for days to do it. Independent, lived alone for about ten years. On March 26, five days after his absence, Juana discovers that her son is not there. “They tell me she hasn’t been home for days, that no one has seen her.” Try to find it. Cell phone is off. He tried again, without success, and filed a complaint with the National Police station.
Francisco de Pablo Páez, male, 32 years old; 1.95 meters tall; 85 kilos. Alopecia due to disease. Tattooed eyebrows, no eyelashes. She has a tribal tattoo on her ankle. He has his keys and phone with him, but no signal. “She wandered around the neighborhoods of Santa María, San Lorenzo, or Villarosa,” Juana expands. The agents try to find him by calling his cell phone, they go home. They beat the streets. No this is it.
A ‘tipping’ of 15,000 euros
The agents and his family approach his inner circle. Francis’ friends say he’s been hanging around. towns, slums, open fields to buy and sell drugs, that the man has debts and a Moldovan family owed him money. Francis went to get her. “My son was… in a non-ideal world,” Juana complains. A friend of Francis’s told the man’s mother that the Moldovan family threatened him. Police took their statements, confirming that they had been with him days before he disappeared, but assured that Francis had left on his own.
A friend of the missing person gave the police another clue. An audio that Francis sent him via Whatsapp. In that message, he explained that his car was not the first to be stolen; he is on 8 november someone broke into your househe had broken through the bars and stolen watches, colonies and drugs.. It was not little, the ‘tipping’ in cocaine amounted to almost 15,000 euros. Because of that attack, the debt now belonged to him.
“Poor kid, they tore him to pieces”
The phrase “I will solve a problem” is engraved in everyone’s mind. Police searched retail outlets and tiptoed through the towns of Valdemingómez and La Cañada Real. Their mother approached them. “I went, I didn’t talk to anyone even though my environment talked.”
They got some data. Francis didn’t just use it occasionally, as they suspected; more sold drugs Some neighbors said the man bought the goods thanks to two people: “a gypsy from Valdemingómez and a Colombian from Madrid.” The family revisited Valdemingómez.
On the night he disappeared, residents of Valdemingómez saw one person calling for help while being chased by two men.
A family friend came and asked. Someone told him they saw what he was like the night he disappeared. person wearing blue sweatshirt (Francis used to carry one like this and was not found in his house) She sought help in horror as she was chased around town by two men. They talked about a drug dealer and a drug addict.
Soon after, the family received another message: “Poor kid, he’s too young… What he did to him… they ripped him apart.” His mother heard it directly. The eyes were on him this time. People of Colombian nationality to whom Francis is indebted.
With this knowledge, Juana once again extended her complaint at the police station (she did this twice). Terrified, overwhelmed and devastated, he lives:I’m going crazy thinking they killed him.. I see his frightened face and they remove it to add more fear and brutality.”
“No sign of guilt”
“To exist Sufficient evidence to believe that you are in a life-threatening situation“, detail the actions of the police. “After exhausting the investigative measures and if it is a necessary, adequate and proportionate measure,” investigators demand to elaborate “locating and recording calls and messages“of the lost
Two courts in Madrid, 35 and 37, denied the police’s request to access his phone, claiming there was “no indication of any crime”. They assure you that Francisco is of legal age and your right to privacy prevails. On April 13, 2022, number 35 in Madrid declared the disappearance “not forced” and closed the case. Her mother’s struggle with attorney Juan Manuel Medina (collaborator of SOS Desaparecidos) supported her reopening. Without much progress, because the judge dismissed all the requested proceedings. Among them was the work of his phone once again.
Doctor’s appointment in a month
The police continued their investigation, which Francis did not. movements in bank accounts after disappearance“. He is unaware of any penalties either. He has not registered with any hotel and there is no evidence of using any means of transportation. Everything is closed.
The surprise came when the researchers requested information from the Madrid Ministry of Health. Recorded at 8:42 am on April 21, According to the documentation you accessed OPEN CASE, that Francis went to “a medical appointment at the Mar Baltico Health Center (Madrid)”. An “assisted” appointment a month after she disappeared. Juana said, “My son, isn’t he the equivalent of a doctor in a doctor?” she wonders.
“The truth is, my son wasn’t at the doctor’s. I talked to the director of the center myself, brought them a photo of Francis, and they didn’t know him“She also reported that she lost her ID, card and medical card shortly before her disappearance,” says Juana.I think someone used their card to block our call.”
Francisco’s family believes someone has usurped his identity. They asked for new procedures: footage from surveillance cameras, declared by the person who treated the man at the health centre. “Something that proved he was at the doctor that day,” Juana argues. The court also rejected them, so the family lawyer appealed this decision.
“It’s okay,” the woman cries. “Let the police investigate… Your cell phone gives them important clues,” she complains. “I’m going to die of grief.” Juana needs “justice”, she needs answers. You must find him. Know how, who and why.