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Court number 4 of Granada considers that the disappearance is due to a voluntary act and makes the man's right to privacy prevail
Since last December 29, no one has heard from Domingo, 53, who warned that he would take his own life in the Monachil Natural Park.
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She had announced it. She communicated it to her family up to three times. The last one, the Civil Guard rescued him from a fire that he had caused in his house. After that, he left in writing via SMS his intention, again, to take his own life and sent it to his children and his wife, from whom he was in the process of separating: “Look for my body in Los Cachorros if I you want to find”, and disappeared.
Since December 29 no one has heard from him again. Family and friends make "disorderly" raids through the area that he indicated, a point in the Monachil Natural Park, in Granada, but the land is extensive and the search yields no results.
The National Police also organized an operation with helicopters and asked the court for information on the geolocation of the phone of this 53-year-old man from Granada with psychological problems, but Justice considers that providing this information goes against the will of the victim. At the moment, they consider that the disappearance has been voluntary.
The desperation of a family
There are more than 86,000 hectares that make up the Natural Park where Domingo, who is the name of the missing man, indicated that they search for his body after several suicide threats. An unfathomable terrain for the family, which organizes search days that, so far, have been unsuccessful.
In statements by the president of the SOS Disappeared Association, Joaquín Amills, collected by El Periódico, the information on the geolocation of the man is "key" to being able to find his body, but the Court of Instruction number 4 of Granada rejects this request. Domingo's phone is turned off, no one has been able to contact him and no one saw him on the day of his disappearance. There is no trace of him or his car. The family collides with the judicial position that, despite being aware of the man's intention to take his own life, insists that the protection of the victim's privacy prevails in this case as there is no criminal evidence.
This argument is refuted over and over again by the family nucleus and the investigators, who allege that Domingo is a vulnerable person since he suffers from psychological problems and is a chronic alcoholic, and cling to the search protocol determined by the Ministry of the Interior in which it is stated that the disappearance of individuals with mental health problems is considered an 'involuntary' act.
While they continue to fight to win this battle and obtain the data that could undoubtedly determine Domingo's whereabouts, the search groups follow one another in this Granada Park, waiting to find new clues that will lead them to the man who announced his suicide.
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