The case of the disappearance of Yéremi Vargas is one of the most high-profile and tragic in the history of Spain, at the same time as one of the most unknown. It all happened in 2007, when the then seven-year-old boy vanished without a trace, while playing in an open field a few meters from his house in Vecindario, Gran Canaria. However, information continues to fall in dribs and drabs 17 years later.
The last of them calls into question one of the most commented and widespread theories by the family of the missing person, and which was directly linked to the involvement of Antonio Ojeda, el Rubio, in the case. According to a report from the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences of Las Palmas, there are “no notes in the medical reports regarding the existence of signs of cyanosis”, thus dismantling some of the accused’s alleged statements on which they were supported.
It all started with these alleged words that Ojeda shared with a cellmate in prison, according to which he referred to Vargas as the “blue boy.” This would be because Yéremi suffered from cyanosis, a condition that leaves the skin with a bluish hue due to a lack of oxygen in the blood. Some information that supposedly only the family knew, and that served for the Investigative Court number 2 of San Bartolomé de Tirajana to reopen the case in 2021.
It was the lawyer for the private prosecution, Carlos García Montes, who requested this report from the IMLCF to corroborate the words of his clients and definitively prove the guilt of Antonio Ojeda in the case. However, the absence of this evidence in the final document leaves the case in a new unknown. Even so, the investigations carried out by two forensic doctors of the entity reveal new striking notes.
The investigations cover a series of medical documents from July 18, 1999, the day of his birth, to April 25, 2006, a few weeks before he disappeared. The forensic experts did not find “notable pathologies of interest” in his Primary Care and Nursing Care history, nor in the Healthy Child Program registration sheet, between September 21, 1999 and September 6, 2005.
The only notable history of his visits to the emergency room was a bronchospasm, before ensuring that Yéremi “did not have a chronic pathology that would require him to undergo specific treatment or periodic check-ups. If there are other medical reports where there is information to be evaluated, and that these experts have not taken into account, we ask that they be provided by the lawyer for study.”
