The similarity between the disappearances of Lian and Loan It is no accident, it is not a photocopy of destiny or a personal misfortune that is repeated without reason. It is part of a social vacuum, of state -free areas that allow boys for less than 10 years to disappear and nothing more than them know. A level of darkness to which society and journalism fail to access and are disoriented before false clues, empty testimonies and failed presumptions. The same justice, which is even more serious.
Eight months after the disappearance of Loan Danilo Peña in Corrientes Already more than nine years of the case Maxi Sosa who disappeared at three years in the city of Ceres, in the northwest of Santa Fe and was never found again, The Lian case seems to repeat a patternthat although the provincial police recognize, it seems never to anticipate.
“Acting the Sofia alert protocol is one of the first actions to be made before the complaint for disappearance of a child,” says a member of Missing Children to news in the midst of the anguish that live in the Lian case. “The problem is that you have to wait 24 hours after a detailed analysis and in minor boys should be fired instantly. In hostile geographical contexts and such vulnerable communities, one day of waiting is an eternity and that is where the trail is definitely lost and the clues begin to clog. ”
Day one
Lian Gael Flores Soraidethree -year -old, disappeared on February 22 in the town of Bellesteros Sud, Córdoba, when he played at the time of the nap in the vicinity of a brick cutter and from that moment, the same speculation that in the aforementioned cases began to emerge between their environment, the provincial police, the justice, the lawyers and the media. While the Federal Prosecutor investigates the hypothesis that Lian has been the victim of trafficking, provincial prosecutors work in the child’s search under the theory that was disoriented and lost, fell into a place of difficult access or was hit and buried in the vicinity of the sawmill.
A few hours after his disappearance, the testimony of a neighbor named Marcelino It was key to the investigation, both to elucidate what happened or to move away from the real events. He said that on February 22, around 2 pm, he saw a “white flat”, from which he could not describe model or patent, enter and leave the area in less than five minutes, an issue that caught his attention. “Customers always enter. There are several who come to ask brick prices but in less than five minutes it is rare. ” Its version, in addition to coinciding with that of another witness, generated that justice arranged excavation in Marcelino’s own courtyard under the excuse “we are exhausting all resources.”
Repeated figure
This reminds the Loan case where those pointed out by the investigators accused each other, Macelino reported the appearance of a healer on February 22 that arrived from Jujuy and after 24 hours he returned to his payments. According to the file that is adding leaves to every second, the woman in a matter of 74 years is an alleged healer of Bolivian nationality who frequently travels to serve a Bolivian community that usually gives her clothes, shoes, toys to distribute the boys deprived of the town of Perico, in the province of Jujuy. Located, investigated and interrogated by local justice, although he was not arrested, his person was under the magnifying glass and disposition of the cause.
In the last hours and thanks to the rake that were made with the most advanced technology and numerous specialized teams, the “zero zone” was discarded. The operation that had heavy machinery of high complexity, georadars and tracker dogsit removed four mounds of sawdust that were covered with large white canvases, and the detail inspection of six brick ovens. Once finished, the prosecutor María Virginia Miguel Carmona He said: “We have not detected the presence of Lian, so the hypothesis of his death, at least near his home, are discarded.” Despite this, family lawyers Darío Baggini and Florencia Guiziothey requested that the National Government resort to NASA to use a system that allows you to check land with satellite images to detect whether in the vicinity of South Bellesteros and surrounding areas, there were earth movements, clandestine excavations or alterations in rural roads, stagnant water wells or very dense vegetation areas. The same method was used to discover clandestine graves in Mexico and although without success, the case of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal in 2007.
The differences between cases of Loan and Lian They marked a specific panorama. The capital errors that muddled the investigation of the former were not repeated. Consulted by news, the journalist Christian Balbo He comments: “Unlike the Loan case, Lian is working much better. First that there was a summary secret from the zero minute as well as non -access to the file or for the complaint. Then, through the statements of the two main witnesses, 8 vehicles and 25 cell phones that will be permitted were kidnapped and more than 30 testimonial statements were already taken. Another important point is that the Protex (Prosecutor’s Office of Trafficking and Exploitation of Persons) took intervention and now the Federal Justice ”.
According to Missing Children, in Argentina there are more than 120 children and adolescents missing in their homes or with unknown whereabouts. Most of them do not take public or media but yes police and judicial course. The striking thing is how the cases, call or lian, are repeated in identical contexts of absence of concrete clues, testimonies and suspects that crowd the scene, inefficient provincial and national operations and a bewilderment that distress a whole society that slowly normalizes horror.
