No news from Álvaro Prieto for four days. Since the young 18-year-old footballer from Córdoba disappeared last Thursday from the Santa Justa train station in Seville, when he was scheduled to take a train to take him back home to Córdoba, there has been no trace of him.
The last movement to find his whereabouts took place on Sunday night, when the Military Emergency Unit (UME) joined the search effort carried out by the National Police. They were not successful in this raid, which lasted about two hours.
The UME, which worked with dogs specialized in searching for people, was unable to find a clue that could shed light on this disappearance. The soldiers were inspecting the area of the station tracks, as well as a difficult point on Avenida 28 de Febrero full of open fields. The search is also extended to the Huerta de Santa Teresa neighborhood, in the vicinity of Kansas City Avenue, where a witness confirms that she saw the boy at 10:330 a.m. that day.
Sources close to the investigation have indicated that this was another action in the operation that began on Thursday to search for the missing young man and that the UME, which left the area after 11:00 p.m., has acted in support of the Police. National.
The National Police has announced that it will resume this Monday the search for the young man from Córdoba Álvaro Prieto on the train tracks around the Santa Justa station after a first search that ended without incident this Monday at 4:00 a.m. .
The investigative court handling the case has decreed the secrecy of the summary while it has been pointed out that there are "several lines of investigation that are being worked on in parallel and simultaneously."
For his part, the Minister of the Presidency, Interior, Social Dialogue and Administrative Simplification, Antonio Sanz, has conveyed the "support" of the Andalusian Government to the family of the missing young man, a disappearance that has "all Andalusians dismayed and worried." Sanz has maintained in statements to the media. Likewise, he has highlighted that the Andalusian Executive is "supporting the family from all points of view" and has trusted that the police work "will bear fruit." "We have complete confidence," he added.
It was Thursday the 12th, a national holiday, when the young man was trying to return home after a night of partying with some friends in Seville. Álvaro sent a message to his mother at 07:22 a.m. informing her that he was going to the station to catch the return train, but he did not arrive on time and missed it. With no battery in his cell phone and no cash, he tried to sneak into another one heading to Barcelona that stopped in Córdoba, but security personnel detected him and prevented him from traveling without a ticket.
The boy, as detailed by investigation sources based on the recording of one of the security cameras, leaves the station around 9:30 a.m. along Kansas City Avenue. An hour later, a witness claimed to have seen him on this public road. Since then, there has been no trace of the footballer despite the raids carried out by his friends and colleagues around the station. Nobody knows anything about the young man.
The parents, frightened by not having news of him, decided the same Thursday to travel to Seville to file a report for the disappearance of their son. Since then, he hasn't stopped looking.
The National Police has taken charge of the case, although it has the support of the members of the Local Police of Seville as well as the agents of the Civil Guard, who are very attentive to some municipalities of Aljarafe in Seville since some of the Calls for citizen collaboration suggest that the young man could be somewhere in this region.
It was Álvaro's mother who, in an interview, considered two options about what could have happened: that the boy got into a car with someone with the intention of returning home and that something could have been done to him or, on the other hand, side, that has been run over. At the moment, and due to the lack of evidence, all lines of investigation remain open.
The family has not had contact with Álvaro for four long days, as have his friends. The Police have already questioned his circle of friends with whom he was partying on the night of October 11 and no one knows anything else about him.
All that has emerged is that the boy is a very responsible person who avoids trouble, a young athlete who, like all young people his age, wants to have a good time and enjoy himself. He has a good relationship with his parents, a good student and very committed to the soccer club in which he plays and from where they have not stopped sharing the photo of him asking for help.
