"Come back, brother, I ask you please," Camila Soria, sister of Emmanuel, begs from her social networks, one of the two Argentines who disappeared on Sunday in Malaga, when they entered the sea on a paddle surf board to see the sunrise. and drink mate
"Go home," Camila posted about the last image of Emmanuel and Maxi that the relatives have just obtained: a video provided by an English tourist who at 7:40 on Sunday wanted to film the sunrise on Huelin beach with his mobile phone, Where did the people from Mar del Plata depart from?
In the image of the blue sky and reddened by the sun about to rise, the cranes of the port of Málaga are silhouetted against the light and, in the middle of the scene, the table with the two young people.
“The video is very clear. They are entering the water, something that was not in doubt for us," Ignacio Soria, another of Emmanuel's brothers who has just arrived in Spain from Argentina with Jorge Ludvik, Maxi's father, told Clarín.
On Sunday, August 27, between 7:20 and 7:30 in the morning, they left the house where Emmanuel was on vacation, crossed the Antonio Machado promenade and walked to Huelin beach, which is four kilometers from the center of Malaga. There they got on the board, with the thermos and the mate, and jumped into the water.
The video that happened to film them shows them entering the sea, one sitting on the board and the other kneeling behind. There were no waves, but the wind, which can be heard hitting the phone's microphone in the video, moves the waters of the Alboran Sea from which Maxi and Emmanuel have not yet returned.
The Spanish State Meteorological Agency had activated the yellow alert for Sunday. Gusts of up to 70 kilometers per hour were expected. This Thursday, the Civil Guard took a statement from the relatives of the disappeared young people who traveled from Argentina.
"They showed us the images from some security cameras and told us that they were checking other private cameras and that, for now, nothing can be seen," Ignacio told Clarín.
The Civil Guard also has the testimony of a Spaniard who works in the area and who claims to have seen the boys entering the sea early on Sunday. On Monday, one day after his disappearance, the table and the mate straw appeared, drifting 18 kilometers out to sea, 24 kilometers from the Huelin beach.
“In Fuengirola, two lifeguards declared that they said they had seen them and that they asked them about the red flag (indicating a bathing ban). But there is a contradiction between them”, adds Ignacio. Fuengirola is 30 kilometers south of the Huelin beach, on the Andalusian coast.
“The tide was going the other way that day. We do not believe that 12 hours after leaving they have made landfall in Fuengirola”, believes Emmanuel's brother. “Also, the board was found on the other side. That also contradicts the lifeguards”, clarifies Ignacio.
Maritime Rescue confirmed to Clarín this Thursday that the rescue operation is maintained. "We continue in the area with 7,000 square kilometers of active search on devices that work 15 hours a day."
“We think they are at sea, waiting to be rescued. It is the faith that we have”, says Ignacio. "Maxi is my lifelong friend and since he was here, he contacted my brother Emmanuel and they were together until what happened happened," he adds without daring to put a word to "what happened."
Ignacio asks, like his sister Camila, "to continue making the issue go viral so that the search does not stop."
"I want to ask you on behalf of me and the families of both of you not to stop searching and sharing your stories on Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, whatever," Camila Soria had asked on social networks on Wednesday.
“All the photos that are going around do not stop sharing them, do not let them be deleted. They are helping us a lot, ”she stressed. The Argentine consulate and the country's embassy in Spain contacted the families of the missing youth.
"Jorge, Maxi's father, needs his daughter and his wife to be here with him," says Ignacio. The collection that was organized is not enough to cover the expenses of the two plane tickets. They appeal for help to arrive to allow the Ludviks to reunite in Malaga, while the search for Maxi and Emmanuel intensifies.
