The family of Víctor Tapiador Martín, the 25-year-old resident of Aranjuez who disappeared on March 8 and whose lifeless body was found a month ago, continues to suffer a long mourning. First, the reasons for his disappearance and now the unknowns of why justice does not give them the body to give him a dignified farewell.
Police sources explain to La Vanguardia that the results of the preliminary autopsy are obtained in less than a week, but if the coroner has requested a second autopsy or an expert test, the results of these investigations may take up to a month and a half to obtain.
The young man’s parents denounce, through a letter that they have sent to the media, that they suffer the “dehumanization” of the judicial system because they have not received the body, nor has anyone informed them “which morgue it is in or the deadlines.” of delivery”. They demand explanations because they had been uncertain for more than six months and now after finding the body of their dead son they do not have access to it.
The same sources explain that “once it has been cremated, no further investigations can be carried out and if it is buried it is better before reaching that moment to carry out expert tests now to clarify the case.”
In the aforementioned writing, the family recounts the ordeal they have gone through since the day of their disappearance. Thus, they say that after 24 hours, they filed a missing persons report at the Aranjuez police station, which is when the Police began their work.
Next, the case entered Court number 3 of Aranjuez. Three weeks later, they received a “jump of cold water” when they received a judicial notification explaining that the case was archived alleging that “there were no crime rates.”
“It seems that we did not have the right to know what had happened to our son, appealing to the supposed freedom of people to make their own decisions, but without really knowing where he was or what could have happened to him. At this point we did not have much Of course, if instead of our son being an anonymous citizen he had been a famous person or relative, he would have been given the same treatment and the same resources would have been used for his search. So the generic concept that justice is equal for all of us, at least for us, it has collapsed,” they criticize.
Faced with this dramatic situation, Víctor’s relatives sought, given their “overwhelm and ignorance,” support from the SOS Desaparecidos association and its president, Joaquín Amills. They also had the help of lawyer Juan Manuel Medina, who filed an appeal against the case file.
On August 23, the negative response to that appeal came, more than four months of paralysis of the police investigation “due to lack of resources to work with.”
On August 29, Víctor’s birthday, several agents informed the family of the appearance of a body that could be that of their son next to a high voltage tower in the open field and near the Ontígola Sea.
However, they had to wait two weeks for scientific tests to confirm the identity of the find. “We believe that we have shown that we have had more than patience during all this time and we went to the police station for the last time, where the judicial police confirmed that it was Víctor and they gave us the few belongings that he had on him, except for his personal documentation, which Today, we don’t know where it could be,” they point out.
After all this, the National Police closed the case and passed all the documentation to Court number 4 of Aranjuez, which is the one who should inform the family from now on.
“We can affirm without any hesitation that more than a month has passed since the appearance of the body and that no judicial representative has contacted us or our lawyer to inform us in which morgue or mortuary our son is, what what is going to be done to him and why and what are the deadlines they manage to deliver our son’s body to us and to be able to say goodbye to him as he deserves,” they denounce.
Víctor Tapiador’s family denounces that “everything is bureaucracy, legality, but empathy with the people who are suffering remains in the background or simply does not exist.”
The family has made the statement because they believe that “we can help people in the future who unfortunately suffer again like we are doing.” They ask the police and the courts to expedite the procedures to avoid making those families suffer in which one of their members disappears.
Finally, Víctor’s family respects “however painful it may be” his decision to take his life and points out that “their love for the family and the best memory of him will always remain among them, always remaining among us.”
Víctor Tapiador, a young nursing assistant and social integrator, disappeared on March 8 of this year. After going to work in the morning, he ate at his sister’s house and went to have coffee with a friend. In the cafeteria he informed his mother that he would soon be going home and left the place around 5 p.m.
From that time on, we lost track of him. His mother sent several text messages to her cell phone, which were listed as read, but which Victor never responded to. He didn’t answer his calls later either, so he started to worry.
The next day, since he did not sleep at home, his cell phone was turned off and the messages appeared as not received, Víctor’s mother reported him missing. The fact that he did not show up to work at the San Juan de Dios hospital in Ciempozuelos, where his co-workers included his father and other family members, worried everyone. He had never been absent, not even when he was sick.
They later discovered that his car was parked near his home. From an angle of the interior cameras of the supermarket opposite, they discovered that that same night, around 11:30 p.m., Víctor calmly parked the car there. Shortly afterwards he returned and left his jacket inside, when it was 8 degrees on the street, and walked towards the roundabout where you enter Aranjuez from the A-4. Since then, nothing more is known about the young man.
After the complaint, the agents spoke with the sister with whom he ate and with the friend with whom Víctor had coffee that day and both assured that they did not observe any strange behavior nor did he tell them anything strange or the possibility of spending that night away from home. home. The family also did not understand why he left his coat and the keys to his home in the car, but he did take his documentation and his mobile phone, which was turned off around 2:45 a.m.
The family, first with the help of agents and then volunteers, organized several raids in the area of ??the Ontígola Sea, which is where the antenna of their mobile phone gave its last signal before turning off. But they did not find any remains of clothing or clues about his disappearance.
It was on August 28 when workers found a body in an advanced state of decomposition with the same clothes that the young man was wearing when he disappeared and several of his tattoos. Furthermore, the area was known by the missing person and traces of him were lost there.
The cause of death could be electrocution, as he was found next to an electrical turret behind the Sea of ??Antigola, between the N-400 and the A-4, in the surroundings of the Gonzalo Chacón industrial estate. The Police finally confirmed suicide as the cause.
