“Nobody wanted to believe it,” Jose Manuel Bermudez mayor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife told reporters. “Pending more conclusive forensic medical evidence, it [the body] could almost certainly correspond to Olivia G”, the court said. Authorities were about to call off the maritime search earlier this week when they found personal belongings of the father at sea. “Every mother and grandmother feels the greatest sorrow, mainly for her [the girls’ mother] ... It’s as if they were our own daughters or granddaughters,” said local resident Maria Victoria. “He is not a lunatic murderer, but the face of machismo, a man who does not tolerate women’s freedom or equality,” Victoria Rosell, government representative against gender violence, told state radio RNE on Friday.

Source: The Irish Times June 11, 2021 12:33 UTC