Spain SPAIN - Virginia Guerrero, 14, & Manuela Torres, 13, Reinosa, 23 Apr 1992

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Aguilar de Campoo case - Wikipedia

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¿Qué ocurrió con Virginia Guerrero y Manuela Torres, dos adolescentes desaparecidas en Aguilar en 1992?

Lo último que se sabe es que pasaron la tarde en Reinosa, estuvieron en una discoteca y en un parque y se las vio haciendo autostop y subiéndose a un Seat 127 color blanco o crema. La familia ha recurrido al Constitucional el archivo de la investigación El asesino de Premià de Mar se hizo un...

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Manuela Torres was born in Aix-en-Provence, France, to a Parisian mother of Algerian origin, Karima Bougeffa, and José Torres, who was from Málaga of Romani descent. She and her mother had only recently moved to Spain after her parents' separation. In Spain, she became "inseparable" from Virginia Guerrero, a native of Aguilar de Campoo.

On the afternoon of April 23, 1992, Virginia Guerrero had asked her mother, Trinidad Espejo Muñoz, for money to buy a cake for a birthday party she was going to attend. Instead, the two girls apparently took a train to Reinosa (a small town located 32 kilometres (20 mi) north of Aguilar de Campoo) to go to a nightclub, without telling their families. When the party was over, it is believed that they decided to hitch-hike home because no trains were running at night. The last person known to have seen the girls was a woman from Aguilar de Campoo, who was leaving Reinosa in her car to return home when she saw the girls get into a white car on the main street in Reinosa.

 

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Also here's an article from January 2024 : La demanda para reabrir el caso de la desaparición de las niñas de Aguilar de Campoo en 1992 llega a Estrasburgo

Here's the translation (from Google translate) :

The request to reopen the case of the disappearance of the Aguilar de Campoo girls in 1992 reaches Strasbourg

The legal representatives of the families of the Aguilar de Campoo girls have presented the lawsuit for their disappearance , which occurred more than 30 years ago, in front of the Strasbourg Human Rights Court , after the Constitutional Court refused to reopen the case a few months ago.

Already then, the legal representatives of the families of Virginia Guerrero and Manuela Torres , who disappeared in April 1992, announced the presentation of this lawsuit, which they made effective this Wednesday.

In this regard, they have explained that the lawsuit arises from the refusal of the Constitutional Court to admit to processing the appeal presented by the families in October 2022 to reopen the case , which was resolved almost a year later, and with it "it remains open." "hope" that what happened will continue to be investigated.

Virgina Guerrero and Manuela Torres lost track of them on April 23, 1992 , when they were 14 and 13 years old and were returning from a party in Reinosa , where they were seen in a nightclub, in Parque Cupido, and then at the height of a cookie factory where they did hitchhiking.

According to eyewitnesses, both got into a white or light-colored SEAT 127 vehicle, and that was the last news we had of them.

The investigation was reopened two summers ago , by the Court of First Instance and Instruction number 2 of Cervera de Pisuerga following a complaint from a woman on a television program, but after different investigations the case was closed again months later.


The Provincial Court of Palencia confirmed the file and the lawyers of the girls' families presented an appeal for protection before the Constitutional Court, understanding that the order that ratified the provisional dismissal of the case violated fundamental rights -effective judicial protection-, as well as than previous resolutions of the Investigating Court.

They also asked the highest body in charge of interpreting the Spanish Constitution in our country to take into account the problem with missing persons and the "gap" of jurisprudence that exists on the matter.

The TC was "the only way" they had left in Spain and, aware of the difficulty of having this appeal admitted - the Constitutional Court rejects the majority of those that are interposed -, they had already made progress at the time of presenting it, which, at that time, case, they would go to Strasbourg.