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Sequence of events

Gabriel, son of Ángel David Cruz Sicilia and Patricia Ramírez Domínguez, disappeared on a little town next to Níjar, known as Las Hortichuelas, 51km from Almería. The town, set deep in Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park, has less than 100 inhabitants.

Although the disappearance took place in the short distance that separates the houses of Gabriel's granmother and cousins, the Spanish Civil Guard widely extended its investigations a radio of six kilometres from the starting point and twelve kilometers in specific places such as wells, antique mines or uninhabited old houses. Officers focused their searches on the floats of Las Negras, near to the place where Ana Julia Quezada pretended the finding of the t-shirt. An specialised diving team searched Gabriel's body in the area. Altogether, more than 625 kilometres and more than 500 point were combed, among wells and cisterns.

Another difficulty faced by the investigation was the absence of surveillance cameras in Las Hortichuelas, where there barely are businesses such as restaurants, tobacco shops or banks. There is not even a cash machine in the entire town. The nearest gas stations are kilometres away.

Finally, the detention of Ana Julia Quezada took place in La Puebla de Vícar, 73 kilometers away from Las Hortichuelas.

Impact

Homage to Gabriel in Almería. Gabriel Cruz murder case severely shook the Spanish society. Two days before the finding of his lifeless body, there was an important demonstration in capital Almería so as to request the boy's return/comeback. His parents stated that Gabriel loved drawing fish and he would like to be marine biologist. From then on, the symbol of the fish filled the windows, schools, public centres and social media of all the country as a way of support.

elmundo.es (1 de marzo de 2018). «Tras los 140 pasos en los que se perdió Gabriel, el niño desaparecido en Níjar». Consultado el 16 de marzo de 2018. elmundo.es (1 March 2018). «Tras los 140 pasos en los que se perdió Gabriel, el niño desaparecido en Níjar». Retrieved 16 March 2018.

elpais.com (12 de marzo de 2018). «Una hija de Ana Julia Quezada murió tras caer por una ventana hace 22 años en Burgos». Consultado el 16 de marzo de 2018. elpais.com (12 March 2018). «Una hija de Ana Julia Quezada murió tras caer por una ventana hace 22 años en Burgos». Retrieved 16 March 2018.

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Gabriel Cruz murder case


The Gabriel Cruz murder case or Nemo Operation refers to the events related to the disappearance of the child Gabriel Cruz Ramírez in Spain. It happened on February 27, 2018 afternoon in the Almeria town of Las Hortichuelas and he was murdered in an state next to Rodalquilar town, both in the municipality of Níjar

The underage child, who was only 8 years old, disappeared when he was going from his grandmother's house to another relatives' house, which is 100 metres away —30 seconds—, and, during 12 days, his whereabouts were unknown.

A search engine was set up involving more than 5,000 troops, including 3,000 volunteers and 2,000 professionals, making it the largest coordinated search for a missing person in the history of Spain

His body was found on 11 March in the trunk of Ana Julia Quezada's vehicle, who was the father's partner. Previously, the alleged perpetrator of the crime had unearthed the child's body on an state owned by the paternal family in Rodalquilar, where the murder allegedly took place on the day of the disappearance; she put him in the vehicle and went to her house in La Puebla de Vícar, where she ha been arrested by the Guardia Civil. They had been following her for some time. Two days later, the accused of the murder confessed the facts.

The investigation is still ongoing and it is pending before court.

Context
Gabriel Cruz Ramírez left his grandmother's house on Tuesday 27th of february of 2018 at 15:30h to go to his cousins' house to play. There are 100 metres between both houses going through an unpaved road and crossing the main street of the town, but the child disapeared before getting to his destination. According to the investigators, at 18:00h, when the grandmother realised that he didn't come back to have the afternoon snack, she went to her relatives' house, asked for him and they told her that Gabriel wasn't there and he hadn't been there that afternoon. Then, they started the search with the neighbours. They phoned the parents who were in other towns and, they all looked for Gabriel. Around 20:30h, five hours later, when they confirmed that nobody knew were was the minor, his family raised the alarm.

Almost a week later, the finding of a white t-shirt four kilometers next to the place of dissapearance trascended. The Home Secretary himself, Juan Ignacio Zoido, confirmed that the analysis done by the criminology laboratory of the Civil Guard revealed the presence of the dissapeared child's DNA in the piece of clothing. Later, the outcome of the investigation would show that the finding of the t-shirt was faked by the presumed murderer of Gabriel. Another fact that gave a clue to the Civil Guard is that when Ana Julia found the piece of clothing it was raining but the t-shirt was almost dry.

On the 9th of march, Spanish press reflected the statement of two witnessess that claimed to have seen a white van prowling through where the child was seen for the last time.

Just two days after, the body of the minor was found in another vehicle: Ana Julia Quezada's one, who was, by then, her father's girlfriend.

Sequence of events
Gabriel, son of Ángel David Cruz Sicilia and Patricia Ramírez Domínguez, disappeared on a little town next to Níjar, known as Las Hortichuelas, 51km from Almería. The town, set deep in Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park, has less than 100 inhabitants.

Although the disappearance took place in the short distance that separates the houses of Gabriel's granmother and cousins, the Spanish Civil Guard widely extended its investigations a radio of six kilometres from the starting point and twelve kilometers in specific places such as wells, antique mines or uninhabited old houses. Officers focused their searches on the floats of Las Negras, near to the place where Ana Julia Quezada pretended the finding of the t-shirt. An specialised diving team searched Gabriel's body in the area. Altogether, more than 625 kilometres and more than 500 point were combed, among wells and cisterns.

Another difficulty faced by the investigation was the absence of surveillance cameras in Las Hortichuelas, where there barely are businesses such as restaurants, tobacco shops or banks. There is not even a cash machine in the entire town. The nearest gas stations are kilometres away.

Finally, the detention of Ana Julia Quezada took place in La Puebla de Vícar, 73 kilometers away from Las Hortichuelas.

The confessed murder
Ana Julia Quezada, detained as the suspected murderer of Gabriel, was in a relationship with Ángel. She was born on the 25th of March in 1974 in La Vega, Dominican Republic. She arrived in Spain in 1995, when she was twenty-two years old, and settled in Burgos with her daughter, to which she gave birth to in the Dominican Republic at the age of eighteen. In 1996 her child, Ridelca Josefia Gil Quezada, which was by then four years old, fell out of a seventh-floor window where they lived and where the child eventually died. The incident has been closed as an accidental death, however the authorities announced that they would reinvestigate the case after the murder of Gabriel.

She got arrested when dozens of agents cut the path of her vehicle while she was about to enter the garage of a block of flats in the town of La Puebla de Vícar. Just after opening the trunk, the investigators found Gabriel Cruz’s dead body.

Although at first she declared that it had not been her who committed the crime, she would finally confess it two days later. Consequently, she was accused of murder, illegal detention and moral integrity.

During her first appearance before the judicial director of the court of Instruction No. 5 of Almeria, Rafael Soriano, the detainee was ratified in the statement given before the civil guard, in which she pointed out that there was an argument and a fight about an axe before the suffocation of the child. She did so to end his life and hid his body in the property of Rodalquilar to which she moved the small. This version was partially dismantled by the investigators in their official report, in which it is quoted:

"The defendant murdered little Gabriel alone, without the involvement of third parties. The child was possibly taken away because of her jealousy. She killed him on the day of his disappearance, suffocating him, buried him and covered his grave with decorative stones and planks."

According to an a posteriori statement made by the Accidental Chief Lieutenant Colonel of the headquarters of the Civil Guard of Almería, José Hernández Mosquera, Ana Julia was suspected practically since the beginning of the investigation. Still, the agents always believed that she kept Gabriel alive and their goal was for her to take them to the little child. However, Gabriel was killed the same day he disappeared, as the autopsy confirmed.

On 3 March, a fundamental incident occurred that would later help to solve the case: Ana Julia organized the appearance of the shirt worn by the minor; she said that she had found it at a distance of about four kilometres from Las Hortichuelas. For which she had to pass a field, reach Las Negras and enter a ravine, something that seemed quite unlikely for the investigators. It should be noted that she was the one who told Ángel to go looking for the child in that area, and it was she who found the garment. Ángel was nearby but not in sight at the time of the supposed discovery. The family recognized it as Gabriel's t-shirt.

According to Civil Guard's sources, the defendant used the t-shirt as a sign to give hope to his partner at that time. Next to where the t-shirt was found lived Ana Julia's boyfriend and, in all likelihood, she thought that investigators would lead their investigation to that person, without success.

On the 11th, An Julia went to the house of Rodalquilar while she was being guarded. The officers saw how she took out of the garden some boards, some rocks and a body that, apparently, was from a small person that fitted in Grabriel's profile. She put him in the boot and headed to Almería; she crossed Almería and got to Vícar. The investigation team cheecked the car's boot and fount Gabriel's body covered in a blanket semi-nude, only in underwears and it was when they decided to arrest her when she got out of the car.

While in prison, they took statement from her and she pleaded guilty in from of her lawyer. She gave details about how she had thrown Gabriel's clothes into a bottlebank in the town of Retamar. The officers inspected the place and they found all the clothes except the shirt.'''

The relationship with Gabriel and Ángel's family
During the search for Gabriel, Ana Julia was actively involved, and she seemed very sad about it. She even gave interviews, cried, pretended and comforted her couple. The Guardia Civil revealed that she administeted high doses of Diazepam to Ángel, an antianxiaety drug, to calm him down and make him forget about it. She had also tried to convince him for weeks to go with her to her country, but he didn't want to. "Calm down, Ángel, when Gabrielito appears, and all this is over, we're going to get married," she said repeatedly.

Impact
Gabriel Cruz murder case severely shook the Spanish society. Two days before the finding of his lifeless body, there was an important demonstration in capital Almería so as to request the boy's return/comeback. His parents stated that Gabriel loved drawing fish and he would like to be marine biologist. From then on, the symbol of the fish filled the windows, schools, public centres and social media of all the country as a way of support.