Maria Laura Balonga
02/17/2021 16:09
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 02/17/2021 4:32 PM
The photo arrives by WhatsApp to
Clarín
from Banda del Río Salí, in Tucumán, about ten kilometers from the capital of that province.
It is sent by one of the policemen who commands the raking in which more than 200 troops participate and who seeks an answer to the question that keeps the people from Tucuman in suspense: where is Brian Exequiel Galván (3)?
"
While we search ... Without words,
" says the text that accompanies the image that hurts rescuers the most.
It is about
two boys
bathing in the dangerous river Salí, the same one that, according to one of the hypotheses about Brian's disappearance, could have taken him on February 14, the last day he was heard from.
The case investigates a range of possibilities, including human trafficking.
“The river is his life
”, the policeman tries to explain the inexplicable thing about the photo, and he says that they take the boys out of the water while they rake to find Brian, but for the residents who live on the banks of the Salí, bathing there
is like playing in the backyard of your house
.
Brian Exequiel Galván (3) disappeared on February 14 in Banda del Río Salí, Tucumán.
"It is a habit.
All the boys play, they jump and go out the side.
It's like an adventure for them, they don't understand how dangerous it is, "said the same source on Tuesday.
The curious thing in Brian's case is that his grandmother, Olga Rojas, assured
Clarín
that
the boy is "very obedient"
and "never went to the river."
The truth is that the dogs of the Tucumán Police found the last trace of Brian about six meters from a bank that rises and falls in time with the growth of the river flow.
A few meters away was
the baby's blue bicycle, lying
very close to the back of the house of the boy's great aunt, Veronica.
While this is happening, the search for Brian, which was activated Sunday evening, continues to return no results and is filled with false data.
Now there are about
200 policemen, firefighters, municipalities and dogs
who are looking for him, combing the banks of the river, navigating its waters by kayak, and monitoring from the air with drones and a helicopter.
More than 200 police, fire and municipal police are searching for Brian by air, land and water.
“We continue to search for air;
by land, with
cavalry and with trained
police
dogs
;
and by water, with canoes ”, explained Commissioner Carlos Valdez, Head of the Eastern Regional Unit.
The General Director of Police Firefighters, Chief Commissioner Segundo Herrera, explained: “We are crossing the Salí River from the Lucas Córdoba bridge to the Santa Rosa de Leales bridge.
The journey is being made
on both sides of the
river
coast
, and by boat ”.
Neighbors and locals help, relatives are still desperate.
“He is so small and I don't know what is happening to him: if he is hungry, if they have done something to him…”, Olga was distressed on Tuesday during the
Clarín call
.
And he begged: “If someone sees him, let him know, call the Police;
that they look for it to me well, that it
has to appear… Yes or yes
”.
When he "disappeared" from the La Milagrosa neighborhood, on Sunday around 6
pm
, Brian was wearing
white shorts with red polka dots and black crocs
.
His photos, with curly brown hair, flood the media, the Prefecture, the Police, are in the tolls and national hospitals, and even in the Termas de Río Hondo, in Santiago del Estero, where the brave Río Salí flows. , which feeds from the El Cadillal Dam, located in Tafí Viejo.
The police search the banks of the mighty Salí River.
One piece of information is provided by the Fire Chief: "
The dam gates were opened
."
At this time of year, according to the sources consulted, the river gets rough.
The waters descend torrentially, the flow increases - the climate of the last days favored that to happen - the river reaches a width of up to 30 meters and almost the height of an average adult deep.
False clues
However, the hypothesis that it was carried away by the current is not the only one that is being investigated.
At the same time, security cameras are reviewed, testimony was taken from neighbors and even from the family who saw Brian for the last time.
And that's where
the red herrings litter the case
.
Olga Rojas told
Clarín
on Wednesday
that they received an
anonymous call
in which they accused Brian's biological father of keeping him hidden in his home.
The neighbors went there, the man tried to escape and they threw him off the motorcycle.
"He is detained because he did not want to go to the police station, my daughter is devastated and the baby does not appear," summed up the baby's grandmother.
"
Two other raids
were made by order of the Justice in houses neighboring Brian's with sniffer dogs based on these, but they gave negative results," added the sources of the case consulted.
Olga Rojas, the grandmother of Brian Exequiel Galván (3).
Screenshot TN.
It was on Sunday, around 5:00 p.m. and while he was riding his blue bicycle along the sidewalk, that the boy
asked permission to go play at the house of a neighbor
, one block from his house.
It was given to him.
While there, Malena, the friend's mother, told Brian that they had to leave, so he had to return home, according to the investigation.
Some neighbors saw it.
And then they
didn't see him anymore
.
Brian's grandmother, who raised him since he was a baby as one of her six children, said that even people who were on the banks of the Salí, where the baby's trace is lost, did not see him that Sunday in that place.
The mystery about Brian's whereabouts increases with the hours, the anxiety and the despair even more, bogged down by false data ... Meanwhile, other boys bathe as if nothing in the dangerous waters of the Rio Salí, before the restlessness of rescuers.
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