A lover of climbing, mountains and hiking, the man from Madrid spent a few days disconnecting | After leaving his pet ‘Cumbia’ they have not heard from him again
He is 29 years old and they have been looking for him for eight months. They call him Quique, His name is Enrique Jesus Division. “We don’t know what happened,” laments Enrique, his father, “it’s a very painful situation.” The last trace we have of his son is from February 9 in Pontedeume (La Coruña). I was riding a bike, I wanted to disconnect. She lost track of her. His family, his environment, his friends and the Civil Guard they beat the ground relentlessly. “They are doing everything possible, and the impossible. No one has stopped looking for it, but nothing leads to it.”
Hiking, biking, routes, climbing, not stopping, no matter how high the wall is. In November (2021), Quique settled in Asturias. Madrilenian, he left two years ago in Picassent (Valencia). “The blessed Covid caught him there, at the house of some friends, and he went to work in a hydrogel factory.” He had previously been to France. “It was when he left the race,” remembers his father, Enrique. “It was hard for me to accept it, but it was his decision … I respected it. I was studying Business Administration and Management (ADE), in English, at the Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid), but he decided to leave it in his last year”. Quique informed his father of his decision: “This is not what I want for myself.”
“He worked everything. He was looking for life without asking for help and without ever being daunted. I was surprised by his courage. He could have a comfortable life, but he didn’t want to depend on anyone, on Dad. In France he was temporary, he picked grapes as well as apples, he cleaned oysters“. Before going to Asturias, he left his job in Valencia, “you could see that he wasn’t comfortable”.
From Asturias
“He arrived in Asturias in November, he rented a rural house,” says the boy’s father. After settling in the north, Enrique and his son saw each other more than once. “I went up to his house. We saw each other from time to time. It had been for over a month. At the end of the year he told me: ‘Dad, don’t go up, I’m going to go for a few days with the bike and the dog & mldr;'”, she recalls.
Comfortable clothes, some food, the bicycle, a backpack and the computer. She put everything in the car. “Well, son, see you around the corner then.” It did not return. “The subsequent sequence was that from Asturias he moved to La Coruña. He left the dog in a dog hotel to be able to go on a bike ride, and He disappeared“.
“He has not gone for the dog, something is wrong”
A few days later, Enrique’s phone rang. “They have called me from the canine hotel, Quique has not gone for the dog and had arranged to go. He does not answer”. Enrique, father, remembers the call as if it were yesterday. “That was the first indication, the first sign, that something was wrong.” The next one would arrive a few days later, her phone was off and “his car appeared in Pontedeume”. Who doesn’t.
The search started, some of the steps that the young man took were drawn. “I had been in a couple of accommodations, first in Pontedeume itself (where the vehicle appeared), later in La Coruna. He was moving with his bicycle and his backpack, with what he was wearing, nothing more.
“He called the dog hotel every day until they told him that the dog was adapted. He was calmer, he answered, and the communication was cut off,” says his father.
In the hotel they remembered him. Also the owner of a bar, sometimes ate there. “They saw him well, at no time have they seen him left or with a worried expression…“, transfers Enrique, “everyone talks about him as a loving person, super correct…”.
It was also known that for days He called the canine hotel to find out if Cumbia, his dog, was okay. “They tell me that it was daily, to see if she adapted… They told her: ‘don’t worry anymore, she’s already adapted’ and, apparently, Quique replied: ‘thank you very much, Already I stay calm. There has been no further communication”. Perhaps, Enrique doubts, “he reinforces that it is a voluntary march. It’s like saying: I make sure the dog is fine… and bye-bye”. Civil Guard, in parallel, opened the vehicle: all his belongings were thereyour mobile phone, no SIM card, clothes and your computer.
An accident
Without news, without movements, the raids started. The agents were joined by a battalion of friends who, without thinking – from Valencia, from Madrid – arrived in Galicia. They papered the area with his photo. “The Civil Guard of Ferrol, in charge of the investigation, activated the high-risk disappearance protocolthe area was beaten, in case he had had an accident”. Quique did not appear.
The spread of the alert brought with it sightings. The agents received photos, videos. “The description was very similar… but it wasn’t him.” The shock was installed at home, in the gang. “Let him go like this? It’s surprising, because as far as I’m concerned, his friends & mldr; it’s not like him,” laments his father. “And it wasn’t necessary. He could well have told me: ‘Look dad, I’m leaving for two months, three, six…’ like he did when he went to France. It has been leaving everything behind and nothing… Leaving us in this situation “.
capuchin monkeys
Active, strong, brave, fighter, describes his father, who recalls an anecdote, in his student years, that defines him well: “When I was at university wanted to go on Erasmus. He was studying his degree in English… he comes to me one day and he tells me: ‘Dad, I’m going to Paraguay.’ I laughed. To practice English? “. His father smiles when he remembers it, today too.
“He left. He was at the American University and, when the summer came (winter in Spain), he stayed there. He went backpacking for two summer months in Paraguay. He toured all of South America: Argentina, Chile, Peru…”, recalls Enrique.
“One day, from there, he tells me: ‘Dad, I found a job for 15 days in an NGO’. As a father, when I hear about the NGO I am very happy (smiles), until I find out that it is a reserve to take care of capuchin monkeys of poaching. ‘You amaze me more and more, son!'”
“Quique was unpredictable,” he says. “He was working there delighted. To the point that his goal was to return at some point in his life. I don’t rule out it being there.”
Enrique transferred his concern to the Ferrol agents, who have supported him from the first day of the investigation. “The treatment is continuous, the support, they are looking for my son in a titanic way“, he thanks. “Not as a stowaway, but is it difficult to get on a ship from La Coruña, to hire you under the table…?”, he asked them. “Man, it’s difficult, because everything is very controlled, but impossible No,” the officers replied.
“Since he disappeared, I’ve been sending him messages as if he were: ‘Quique, I’ve read this book, take a look, you’ll like it,'” laments his father.
Voluntary walking, accident… “That it was voluntary, for sure; there is no indication of criminality. But when it coincides that disappears without a trace, indication or warning, and in parallel, that the disappearance occurs when he goes with his bikean accident cannot be ruled out.”
Quique has not made calls, there are no bank movements, he has not renewed his documentation. “He is accustomed to looking for life, he does not need anything to survive“.
United, much father and son were in constant communication. “He had no active social networks. Whatsapp saturated him and closed him. We made an account on another similar network. With which, we were alone him and me“. There is not a day that his father does not open it. “Since he disappeared, I have been sending him messages as if he were: ‘Quique, I have read this book, look, you will like it'”. The answer does not come. He thinks , type, erase… “Quique, where are you?”.