Spanish police, on the island of Lanzarote, is looking for Jasmine Raeymaekers, a Belgian thirties, as well as her daughter Lily Sofía Fernández, three years old. The young woman, from Merksplas, lived on the island with her daughter, but would have left the country without informing the father of the child, her former companion. The latter, still residing in Lanzarote, alerted the authorities last Monday, after having stayed without news of the mother since the end of February.
The Spanish association “SOS DESAPARECIDOS” released a wanted notice on Tuesday, also relayed by local media. The police consider this case as a parental kidnapping. According to the newspaper Canarias7, Raeymaekers would have left Spain in violation of a legal decision prohibiting him from traveling abroad with his daughter.
Clues present on the Instagram account of the thirties seem to support suspicions: several recent photos and videos show the little girl in various countries, especially in India and Egypt. In a video dated two days ago, we see little Lily in the back of a tuk-tuk. Under another publication, a comment in Spanish directly challenges the mother: “If you really want to protect your daughter, give it back to me. »»
On a publication in “story” on Instagram, published at 8 pm this Friday, she writes: “We are safe and everything is fine. Thank you for worrying about you. We are not missing. As for my daughter’s father, there are good reasons why he does not play any role. Thank you for respecting our private life ”.
A parental conflict exposed on networks
Raeymaekers does not hesitate to publicly share intimate details of his private life. She evokes her break with Lily’s father, met in Lanzarote, but also another man who would have inspired her to write his book “Farewell Papa – we sometimes loved you”. She describes there “a moving story on the complex consequences of a relationship with a psychopath”, revealing a conflictual context between the two parents.
Judicial history
According to the Spanish press, this is not the first time that Jasmine Raeymaekers does not respect her daughter’s guard rules. A previous incident would have already led justice to ban the young woman from leaving Spanish territory with her child.
In 2019, while working as a tourist guide for Tui, she had been briefly incarcerated in Egypt after hitting a child by going to her workplace. The child had only undergone a fracture on the arm, but Raeymaekers had to appear before a local court. She was finally acquitted. The episode is reported in a book which she published in 2022, “Een Nacht in Een Kooo”.
Spanish police are continuing their research to locate the mother and the child. Anyone with information is invited to contact the authorities.
