The device the search for Alejandro Mencía, disappeared 12 days ago near the town of Soto (Brotherhood of Campoo de Suso), will continue from tomorrow with the ordinary services from Civil Guard, from the Government of Cantabria helicopter, the staff of the General Directorate of Biodiversity and the support of the technicians of the General Directorate of the Interior.
This is how the general director of Interior, Jezabel Morán, during her visit to Advanced Command Post, located today in the telecentre of Argüeso.
The general director of the Interior has explained that, after using different techniques and means of tracking and after “several days” in which no new evidence has been found to help the search, the extraordinary operating it will be deactivated from tomorrow.
However, today will maintain the Forward Command Post and, as explained, the search will focus on the zone in which the boots of the disappeared young man, which despite being a “highly tracked” area, the cynological group of the Civil Guard He has considered returning to it, to which other areas suggested by the young man’s family will be added.
As Morán has stated, in the device of search of Alejandro Mencía has been in operation since the early morning of May 31 and in which they have participated 1,600 people: technicians from the General Directorate of the Interior and SEMCA; of the General Directorate of Biodiversity, Environment and Climate Change; Civil Guard; Red Cross; from 16 clusters municipal civil protection volunteers, as well as citizen volunteers who have provided their collaboration.
With coordination from Forward Command Post installed most of the days in the Braña del Tejo, 1,500 hectares of land have been traced, many of them with intensive techniques and almost 100 off-road vehicles, motorcycles, quads, etc. have been used.
In addition, the helicopter of the Government of Cantabria has carried out tracking flights in another 480 hectares and has also had a Civil Guard aircraft. The drone service of the Government of Cantabria It has made 62 drone flights, 20 hours of flight, searching an area of 480 hectares.
Have also been made 38 searches with tracking dogs and venting of the Group of Dogs Salvage and Rescue of Santander and Seprona, as well as those specialized in locating cadaveric remains of the Civil Guard Cynological Group.
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