SUSPECT 'EL CHICLE' ALLEGEDLY ABDUCTED DIANA QUER IN HIS WIFE'S CAR
El Confidencial
https://www.elconfidencial.com/espa...le-diana-quer-alfa-romeo-coche-mujer_1499686/
The investigators of the Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Guardia Civil have not yet managed to put together all the pieces of the Diana Quer case, but they had been clear for weeks that one of them, perhaps the most important, was José Enrique Abuín Gey, alias' El Chicle', a small 41-year-old trafficker who lived with his wife and daughter at number 94 in the tiny Coruña parish of Outeiro. From the door of his house to the place where the young girl from Madrid disappeared that morning of 22 August 2016 there are only 16 kilometres, about 20 minutes by car, and the most logical route between both points runs millimetrically through the few clues that the Guardia Civil possessed during these 494 days durinmg their efforts to solve the most mediatic enigma of the last decade.
El Chicle also fits the profile the agents were looking for. Between 35 and 45 years old, from the area, with a car, a sexual assault record and maybe also drug trafficking. He may never have killed anyone, but he knew how to do it. And he must have enough coldness to bear on his conscience the murder of a girl without showing in 16 months the slightest sign of repentance. They nailed it. Abuín is 41 years old, born and raised in the region, was tried for sexual assault and in 2007 he was arrested and convicted in Operation Piñata against drug trafficking. The Guardia Civil intercepted him in Lalín (Pontevedra) when he was transporting two kilos of cocaine in a car. In the last few months he had combined construction and shipyard work, painting hulls of the area's fishing boats. He had also earned income from poaching shellfish. His free time was spent partying and taking part in popular races. He was obsessed with running.
The UCO has had to make a titanic effort to uncover his supposedly dark side. The agents soon discovered that el Chicle was at the fiestas of A Pobra do Caramiñal the same night that Diana disappeared. They even took his statement at the police headquarters, but with no further evidence against him and a long list of suspects, Abuin did not go beyond the status of a mere witness, like the dozens of people who were interrogated since the investigations began.
The situation took a turn a few weeks ago. After unsuccessfully exploring other lines of investigation, the UCO returned to the steps of el Chicle and began to put the puzzle together.
He hadn't only been in A Pobra the night Diana vanished. His wife's car, a grey Alfa Romeo, also matched the description given by several witnesses of the vehicle with which the girl was allegedly abducted. The agents verified that the vehicle was actually in the municipality. In addition, if el Chicle had wanted to go after the kidnapping to the area he knew best to commit the crime in a safe environment, he would have traveled necessarily through the same places where the young woman's mobile phone gave a signal.
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The UCO had been following his trail for weeks, but his arrest was rushed this Friday after a young woman from Boiro denounced that el Chicle tried to kidnap her on Monday 25 December. The girl told the next day that the suspect tried to steal her cell phone and put her in the trunk of his car. Luckily, she was able to escape and is alive to tell the tale, but the episode forced the arrest of Abuin earlier than expected. Although the agents had long been convinced that he was the main suspect involved in Diana's disappearance, they wanted to get more additional leads to reinforce his connection with the facts.
The good news is that the case of Boiro may have made this extra effort unnecessary.
The investigators thought from the beginning that the perpetrators must have been at least two people. A single one would not have been able to intercept Diana, force her into a car, take her mobile phone, drive with her for 20 minutes inside and throw her phone into the water from the Taragoña bridge with the vehicle on the road. They had el Chicle but lacked another accomplice. However, if the facts occurred as reported by young lady from Boiro, the main suspect could have acted alone. He would only have had to put Diana in the trunk of the Alfa Romeo to set course, with his hands free and his attention on the road, towards the area of the Barbanza region where he felt most comfortable.
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