“I’ve been in real suffering for two years. I’m waiting for news, I’m waiting for the phone. Anyone who tells me they know something about him or that they’ve arrested his executioners, but he doesn’t come.” Toñi is Yurian Cabrera’s mother. Lost in the Canary Islands in May 2020. “I know that they tortured my son they killed him they disappeared“The woman has been absent for two years.
On the day everything turned dark, Yurian was turning 35. Blowing out the candles at home in LA Islet (Las Palmas) and went for a walk. It was eight in the evening. He didn’t say where he was going, he didn’t say who he was with. He didn’t come back.
“I’ll never forget May 12, 2020. He didn’t like to celebrate his birthday,” his mother recalls, “even though we sang happy birthday to him.” It was the last meeting Yuri would have with his family, as they called him at home. “Yurian left what he was wearing, he had no cell phone or documents.”they went for him, they killed him“.
“Throws It Over The Bridge”
The warning went away after a few days. “He was on medication and undergoing treatment for drug use as well as a 66 percent mental disability. That afternoon I I told him to be careful what he does.Let’s not start with them. He got a little pissed off when you told him,” she recalls, and says it took a while for her to come back as her mother was a little upset. “I thought she’d be with some friends, I don’t know. “A few days later, Toñi frowned, “well, he’ll have gotten over his anger by now… right? I’m sure he’ll rise.” He didn’t.
The woman went to look for him. “I went to many places I asked their circles and entered their networks“, Toñi recalls. There was nothing guiding him. “A boy told me he saw him on May 20 in Jinámar (Las Palmas). I looked for my son there, where he stood, and when I couldn’t find him anywhere, I went to report.“.
“My son is not visible,” he said at the police station. After the complaint, an investigation was started. Toñi took charge of his own investigation at the same time that the agents began their investigation. He spread his image, shouted his name. “Someone who knew him came and He told me that Yuri was taken, killed and disappeared.”. Heard this version for the first time.
Police recorded the information, but didn’t give much credence: “The person who said that also had a disability, and there’s nothing proven.” That person expanded his statement, giving place, “he said my son was thrown from Silva Bridge (Las Palmas)”. The police searched but found nothing. The investigation stopped.
They tied their hands and feet
Alerts enabled in all directions. The police never initially ruled out that this might be a voluntary escape. “It was weird, it wouldn’t have been that long before my son contacted me.” The pharmacies were warned, Yurian was taking medicine, he could go to buy it whenever he wanted. “Impossible,” complains Toñi, “I have the medical record.”
“He was brought on a boat in Tenerife for Tomás Gimeno, murderer of the daughters of Anna and Olivia, but nothing happened to my son,” complains mother
Days passed without data, without progress, without answers, and the letter arrived. An anonymous message that starts like this: “Don’t say anything to the police”, recalls her mother. “He said he didn’t convey anything, but told me because he appreciated my son so much.” The text details who and howHe told all the details of the disappearance.
“Looks like Yuri took something from some people, I don’t know if it’s drugs or not. they took they tortured and they killed him. He says they buried it for a while, but then threw it overboard with weights just to be sure. His hands and feet were tied.”
He describes the torture the man was allegedly subjected to, “but I can’t even pronounce it; my son suffered”. He went directly to the investigative body with the letter. They searched but nothing, no body, no crime,” he said. Yurian is not there.
“This is a crime they tortured him by premeditation. What they did to him is very powerful,” the mother says, convinced. The investigation continues, but at a slow pace, “We have the names of those who did this, I know who killed my son, but I can’t prove it.” Police progress is scant, “No body, Toñi, agents let me make up my mind now and mourn my son,” he says.
Toñi replied back then and uses the same phrase today: “I can’t because it’s not her body“.
Yurian, the young man who went out to celebrate his birthday one afternoon, does not appear, he is not there. “To love, with a heart of gold, Even though I know everything went wrong when he started taking drugs; He wasn’t bad, he didn’t hurt anyone”. Real Madrid football player, but above all UD Las Palmas. Lover of music, Maná, Amaral.
“had I hope my son went to another island and called me, but my son hasn’t been for two years and he keeps me like that. The reaction of the police, the statements I received and the time that passed make me believe this. it is true that my son gone.”
Marta del Castillo, Yeremi Vargas
Toñi fights against the elements, begging for help. “My son was neither searched by a dog team nor searched at sea… Tomás Gimeno, the murderer of the girls Anna and Olivia in TenerifeThey even brought a boat, but nothing happened to my son,” she complains. I need the police force not to leave me. That she does drugs, yes, but she’s human,” she pleads, “she’s human and I’m a mother.”
Before kissing her son’s last photograph, she makes one final plea: “We can’t have murderers – as in the case of Marta del Castillo, of Yéremi, my son… and everything is going well for them because there’s no way to get them talking. Do something now. .