Overview
- The investigation began after the mother filed a missing-person complaint saying the father had left Spain with their daughter, prompting an urgent Guardia Civil search.
- Officers reconstructed a planned escape by reviewing CCTV, bank records and ferry exit logs and found the child had been hidden in a car trunk to board a ship from Mallorca.
- Detectives say the father tried to erase his trail by canceling bank accounts and deleting social profiles, and that an AirTag carried by the child was later mailed to Morocco in an apparent diversion.
- Kosovo police located and detained the father during a verification operation and the six-year-old was found in good condition, placed under protection and returned to her mother in Mallorca.
- Spanish judges have issued a European Arrest Warrant and pre-trial detention order, and authorities are pursuing extradition and probes into possible accomplices and diversion tactics.