Spanish rescuers were searching the waters off the coast of Tenerife today, searching for a one-year-old girl after retrieving the body of a six-year-old girl, believed to be her sister, from a depth of 1.000 meters.
Their father, Thomas G., is the main suspect in the disappearance of 6-year-old Olivia and one-year-old Anna. The two girls are considered missing since the end of April on this island in the Canary archipelago after sending a last farewell message from their father, who also disappeared, to their mother with whom he had divorced, as he told the French Agency representative of the militia.
The body of the 6-year-old girl, who authorities consider to be Olivia's most likely, was found near the place where her father's boat was found sailing.
"The corpse is at a depth of 1.000 meters inside a sports bag tied with an anchor. "Another empty sports bag was found next to them," a court statement said. "Pending more forensic evidence, (the corpse) could almost certainly belong to Olivia G.," the court said.
The Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sanchez, said in a post on Twitter: "I can not even imagine the pain of the mother of little Anna and little Olivia, who disappeared in Tenerife, with the terrible news we just heard."
In Spain, 39 minors have been murdered by their mother's father or partner, current or former, since 2013, according to government data on gender-based crimes.