The family of Matilde, the woman from Mallorca who disappeared in Indonesia, believes that hotel employees are involved.
They suspect that the managers of the hotel where he lived are colluding due to the contradictions and to try to mislead investigators.
PalmMaria Matilde's family, Tomorrow, Muñoz Cazorla, the 72-year-old Mallorca resident who disappeared on the island of Lombok (Indonesia) since July 2, considers it to be "a textbook crime" and calls on the Asian country's police and Interpol to intensify the investigation and take statements from the employees of the hotel where she was staying. Mati, born in Galicia, stopped responding to messages from her friends and relatives and stopped attending to her social media accounts almost two months ago. She was last seen near the Bumi Aditya hotel, on Senggigi beach, where she had paid for 20 nights in advance, as Ignacio Vilariño, nephew and family representative, explained to Europa Press.
Vilariño has denounced that the contradictions of some of the employees and managers "are so evident that they leave no doubt" about a possible involvement in the disappearance. "It plagues us that no one has been brought to testify before the country's police. The lies told by the two or three people who run the hotel show that they are in cahoots," he asserted.
Six days after Mati's disappearance, a message was sent from Mati's cell phone to a hotel employee, containing serious spelling mistakes, "uncharacteristic of her," informing her that she had to travel to Laos. The family believes someone else wrote these messages as part of an alibi. "We have no doubt they were fraudulent," the nephew emphasized.
Geolocation work
Precisely to clarify this matter and continue a still-incipient investigation, the Indonesian police recently began geolocating the missing woman's cell phone, as reported by the newspaper ABC on Wednesday. The officers made this decision due to family pressure and complaints filed at the end of July in Madrid, Girona, and in Indonesia itself through the Spanish embassy.
Vilariño also criticized the fact that the Forensic Police took so many weeks to search the room where Mati was staying, although he doesn't know what they found. What he does know is that hotel employees pointed the officers to another room. Finally, last Sunday, they found most of Mati's belongings—clothes, books, sandals, personal notes, and his backpack—in the hotel's garbage area.
However, neither the passport, nor the credit cards, nor the mobile phone have been found, which raises suspicions of a robbery accompanied by violence or a deliberate attempt to cover up the evidence. "It's impossible that she left of her own free will. She was a woman who reported her movements minute by minute and never stopped responding to her family," the family representative emphasized.
They call for greater involvement from the authorities.
The missing woman's inner circle regrets that more than 50 days have passed without significant progress in the investigation, and that the start of geolocation of the cell phone took weeks to implement, even though it was considered a fundamental step in tracing her last movements. They also call for an analysis of security camera footage from a nearby mosque, which may have captured key movements of Mati.
Now, they are seeking greater involvement from the police and Spanish authorities, recalling the case of the murder of Galician Diego Bello in the Philippines, whose alleged perpetrators are already in pretrial detention.
The family, which is already preparing further action, also wants to be allowed to know Matilde's bank transactions since the day she disappeared. Ignacio Vilariño has announced that they will maintain pressure and that he will conduct an independent audit of the handling of the investigation.