The investigation into the disappearance of a young Gran Canaria boy in March 2007 continues to produce news after more than eighteen years.
Yeremi Vargas is believed to have been abducted while playing on waste ground near his home in Vecindario. His mother Ithaisa Suárez has battled tirelessly to keep the case active, despite minimal hopes of him ever being found alive.
Various lines of inquiry and investigations of potential suspects have failed to resolve the case, which has been likened to the disappearance of British youngster Madeline McCann in Portugal in May of the same year.
Yeremi’s father was sentenced recently to four years in prison for sexually abusing in 2020 the 12-year-old daughter of his ex-girlfriend, with whom he lived at the time in Fuerteventura.
However, the prime suspect is a Las Palmas man known by the nickname El Rubio, who was confronted directly by Ithaisa Suárez last December following his release from prison for sexually assaulting a young child. However, police have so far failed to produce solid evidence linking him to the boy or his disappearance.
In the latest twist to the story, a judge in Gran Canaria has reissued an order compelling the Canarian Health Service to provide the full medical history of the then 7-year-old Yeremi in order to verify whether he suffered from a condition known as cyanosis, which causes skin, lips and nails to turn blue due to a lack of oxygen in the blood.
According to media reports, the bizarre order was made initially after it emerged that El Rubio had allegedly confided in a fellow prisoner while in jail on the Spanish mainland that the boy “would turn blue when stressed out”, a circumstance he could not have known unless he had been in contact with him.
Yeremi’s disappearance, which is given considerable publicity every year by his mother on the anniversary of the tragic day, has filled countless pages of the Spanish and Canarian media and has also featured in the international press also.
The case has been made into a 6-part podcast which has attracted a wide following.
