The case of Malén Ortiz continues to be one of the most important events in the black chronicle of our country ten years later. The 15-year-old girl disappeared on December 2, 2013 in Mallorca. That day, Malén had met her boyfriend for lunch after leaving school. A security camera captured the 15-year-old girl riding her scooter towards her boyfriend’s house in the town of Son Ferrer, in Mallorca.
But the young woman never arrived at her boyfriend’s house and the trail got lost on a 500-meter stretch of road, between the nursery stop and the gas station, where she was last seen. Since then nothing has been heard from Malén Ortiz. The young woman’s boyfriend was one of the first investigated, but after years of investigation, the Civil Guard suggests that it could have been an improvised kidnapping.
Now, just ten years after her disappearance, the young woman’s mother, Natalia Rodríguez, came to the set of And Now Sonsoles to state that, after a decade without her daughter, the investigation remains just as stagnant as it was years ago. ”We continue the same as that damned December 2, without knowing where or how my daughter is,” she declared.
”It has been like ten lives, time continues to pass and the world continues to spin as if Malén had never existed and that hurts a lot,” he said. During these ten years there was only one reliable lead. And three months after her disappearance, there began to be movements on her social networks, which made the family excited to see the young woman again.
”It was a minor who usurped my daughter’s identity and only damaged the investigation because Facebook blocked my daughter’s profile and the investigators could not know with whom she last had a conversation,” he stated. ”Things have failed, otherwise we wouldn’t be sitting here. “What has been done has not been enough,” she asserted.
Furthermore, the mother confessed that she hoped to see her daughter alive again. ”Even though 10 years have passed, I will never lose that hope. It’s what keeps me alive,’ she said. Regarding what could have happened to her daughter, Natalia confessed that Malén would have met someone she knew.
”My daughter was taken by someone she knew. If it had been something violent, due to her character, Malén would have resisted. So I am more than sure the person who deceived my daughter was someone in her environment, someone she already knew and whom she trusted,’ she stated. ”I demand the same thing for my daughter as for all the disappeared, the right to be searched and found. And that all means be used because we need to know what happened,’ she concluded.
