Overview

• The inmate slipped away Thursday morning after excusing himself to go to the bathroom during a group visit to the Guadiana river park
• He is believed to be serving a sentence for gender violence and had been on a supervised group outing
• Accompanying the prisoner were an educator, a jurist and a prison officer assigned by Badajoz prison authorities
• National Police and local forces have established a search operation that remains active across the Badajoz area
• Investigators have launched a probe into possible outside assistance and lapses in the prison’s security protocols