Jay Slater: Spanish missing persons authorities appeal for British teenager – World News

A missing persons appeal has been launched against British teenager Jay Slater by a Spanish organization which described his case as “highly vulnerable”.

SOS Desaparecidos published a missing poster on its social networks on Monday to announce the disappearance of the 19-year-old young man in Tenerife. The alert was broadcast on the prestigious association's website on X, formerly Twitter, which has more than 68,000 subscribers.

It should be added to its website later today. The non-profit organization, founded more than twenty years ago by Joaquin Amills whose stepson Junior disappeared off the coast of Almeria, in southeastern Spain, in September 2008, while he was 23, wrote the word “Urgent” next to a photo of Jay on his missing poster. .

Referring to the municipality of Buenavista del Norte, which includes the small village of Masca, located near the location of the Teno Rural Park, in the northwest of Tenerife, where the police are carrying out the ongoing search to find the apprentice mason, the text states: “He disappeared on June 17 in Buenavista del Norte. He is 19, 1.80 tall, slim, has black hair, blue eyes, white pants, white T-shirt, black and blue sneakers.

He then urged anyone with information to call 112, the Spanish equivalent of 999, on one of his two Spanish mobile phones, or email [email protected]. In an introduction to the appeal, he described the case as one of “alta vulnerabilidad” – “high vulnerability” in Spanish.

The Missing Persons Association has raised the alarm in previous cases involving British nationals. In March last year she launched an appeal for information about a 60-year-old woman called Kate Barley after she went missing in Tenerife.

Her Italian husband Giuseppe Bizzarro, 73, hired a helicopter to search for her. She was later found safe and sound, almost a week after she went missing in Adeje, in the south of the island, following an appeal to tourists and local residents to contact the island's police if they had any information on her.

He also publicized the disappearance of skier Blanca Fernandez Ochoa, who won the bronze medal in slalom at the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, France, when she disappeared in Spain in August 2019. The 56-year-old was tragically found dead 11 days later. she disappeared in the mountains near Madrid and it later emerged that she had committed suicide.