Two absent migrants and a pattern under suspicion | Spain
The trunks and leaves of the 67 million trees that populate the Olivos de Jaén Sea These days show a robust and vigorous appearance. Nothing to do with the image enters and thirsty for the last two campaigns. The generous rains of recent weeks have changed the mood of a province that holds international oleícla leadership. Happiness for water benefits is perceived in the faces of the Jiennenses. In Villacarrillo (10,320 inhabitants), the municipality that presumes to have the olive groves, is not different, although there is an element that overshadows the jubilation that the oleícola sector is experiencing. « If you have done it, but that this nightmare is already over, the image of this town and all the neighbors is being stained, » says José (does not want to identify), which runs a fruit shop in the town’s supply market.
On the upper floor of that property is the Court of Instruction that last Thursday was heading to Prison Ginés Vicente López, the 53 -year -old businessman considered the main suspect of the disappearance of one of his employees in the collection of the olive, Ibrahima Diouf, a 31 -year -old Senegal senator. Both had argued hours before after the temporary refusal to work in the field for the persistent rain that fell. Diouf was last seen on January 5, 2021 by dragging a red suitcase on his pattern’s house. I was going to ask him to pay him what he owed him because he was going to return to Huelva, where his compatriots were waiting for him to work in the Red Fruits campaign.
The judge of Villacarrillo Imputa To the businessman the crimes of homicide and illicit possession of weapons for the disappearance of Diouf. It is an important judicial turn in a case for which you have to go back to 2013. On December 17 of that year, also in full campaign to pick up the olive, Tidiany Coulibly disappeared, a 22 -year -old Mali Testa who was also an employee of Ginés Vicente. Coulibaly and other gang immigrants had a discussion with the employer. He was recriminated to pay them 20 euros, when the agreement of the field of that year stipulated at 50.37 euros. In 2016, Jaén’s hearing sentenced the employer to two and a half years in jail for crimes against workers’ rights and the administration of justice, but did not come to prison upon receiving the conditional suspension for not exceeding each of the crimes the penalty of two years and lacking a criminal record.
The Jiennense pattern was therefore condemned for labor exploitation, but not for the « forced disappearance » of Coulibaly, which was the criminal typification used by Javier Pulido, the lawyer who exercised the particular accusation on behalf of the family of the Mali Testa. « If Tidiany’s biological remains appear we will ask for a new procedure against the employer now imprisoned, » Pulido says after the Villacarrillo judge now imputes the homicide pattern for the disappearance of Senegalés Diouf. It is a relevant legal novelty because until now two forced disappearances were investigated, but now a homicide is also investigated. The Civil Guard agents themselves who have participated in the investigation argue that they were not looking for two missing, but two bodies.
Diouf has been sought In recent years by land, sea and air. Agents of the Central Operating Unit (UCO) have made, without success, numerous records in homes and properties of the agricultural pattern and its family; A cavalry and cynological service squad (with the participation of Elton, the dog that became famous for finding the body of Diana Quer) have scrutinized all the farms of olive groves; Helicopters and drones have flown over the most difficult access areas, and the divers have submerged in several private wells and in the Guadalquivir river as it passes through Mogón.
« He is a very reserved man, lonely and little given to chat with the neighbors, » explains Antonio, a fictional name for fear of reprisals of an octogenarian who lives near the house of the businessman’s mother, a house where a gun was located in one of the records carried out and that motivated the arrest of Ginés Vicente’s wife, released shortly after accused of illegal possession of weapons.
That sullen and cold character of the agricultural entrepreneur (who after being a few years as a military man became olive -east, receiving aid for young farmers) is also what is most attracting the attention of the UCO researchers, who have never had the collaboration of the defendant in the search tasks. The gun found in the mother’s house is one of the indications that has now led to the imputation of Ginés Vicente López, who also refused to declare before the judge. His defense lawyer, Leopoldo Rubiales, has shown his intention to resort to imprisonment when considering that it has only been based on indications « but without any direct evidence. »
In the 2016 trial the main evidence presented against the businessman for the disappearance of Coulibaly was the earmuffs of the Mali Testa that were found by the agents, with the help of the dogs, in the La Moratilla farm. Although the accusation presented it as an indication for the residues of the defendant’s DNA found in that garment, justice dismissed it and, on the other hand, did attend the argument of the defense that the businessman had not been in that place.
The priest Jesús Castro, delegate of Migrations of the Diocese of Jaén, recalls « the feeling of loneliness and frustration » that he found among the family and friends of Coulibaly when he contacted them in Villacarrillo. « They were minor who arrived in Spain, many of them in pateras, to make a living, which were later silenced and they saw that justice was not done, » says Castro, who was responsible for looking for at least one lawyer.
The tranquility reigns these days in Villacarrillo after the prison entry of the accused of the homicide of Diouf. Nothing comparable to what was lived on January 6, 2014 after the disappearance of Coulibaly. Several tens of temporary migrants demonstrated in the town to ask that the search for their partner continue in the collection tasks of the olive, a protest that concluded with disturbances, police charges and damage to the urban furniture. A few days later the residents of Villacarrillo carried out a concentration of repulsion for the protests of the migrants.
« Labor exploitation must disappear »
The disappearance of the two African temporary who worked in the olive campaign has opened the debate on the working conditions that migrants support in the primary sector. « This must be seen as an isolated case. The vast majority of entrepreneurs correctly host the storms, » says Francisco Miralles, mayor of Villacarrillo by the PP. Jaén was a pioneer province in the shelter model for the reception of these people who alternate different agricultural campaigns throughout the country, although this circumstance does not prevent the scenes of storms from sleeping in the streets in the streets.
« Labor exploitation must disappear from this type of jobs, it is a shame to see immigrants sleeping in the street to obtain a job. You have to give them decent accommodation and a work with a fair remuneration, » reflects Cristóbal Fábregas, foreigner prosecutor of the Provincial Court of Jaén. In his opinion, a greater implication of the Labor Inspection in the control of the accommodations and the salaries that They perceive agricultural storms. But the Delegate of Migrations of the Diocese of Jaén goes further by warning about the obstacles that are put to these people from the migratory policies of the EU and Spain, and also on « the climbing of xenophobia towards the immigrant » propelled by the most ultras political groups of extreme right.
The history of Coulibaly and Diouf has also reached the cinema by the documentary Day laborers: the evil patternof the Andalusian producer Entrefronteras. It is a tape that, with a format of True Crime social, it is immersed, in addition to these two unresolved cases, in the labor exploitation in which their victims lived. « This documentary breaks stereotypes at a time when it seems that an interest is extended to relate to immigration with insecurity. Here we see a very different reality: the insecurity and the conditions in which people live in Spain without which the basic products would not reach us at the table. Without them the oil that we put in the toast every morning would come to the table. Sergio Rodrigo Ruiz maintains, the director of this work that this week has reached the Malaga Film Festival.
