Francelys María Furcal, the most wanted fugitive in the Dominican Republic, was hiding in Madrid. His escape began on April 21, 2022, when he killed the manager of the Santo Domingo hardware store where he worked.. The event occurred in front of the customers themselves and was recorded by one of the security cameras: he throws an object at her, she throws another at him, he kicks her and she stabs him. While the victim lies dying on the ground, you can see how Furcal leaves the place walking. Not even the witnesses noticed the seriousness of what happened at first..
After 16 months of searching, the fugitive team of the National Police handcuffed him last week in Madrid. Sources familiar with the operation explain that he had sought refuge in Tetuán, in a part of the neighborhood known as the little Caribbean, due to the large number of Latino residents.. “It was extremely dangerous and he immediately left the country,” they point out from the National Police. The suspicion centers on the fact that Furcal, 31, had the help of some kind of white-trafficking organization: despite being a simple hardware store employee, her trail goes through Medellín (Colombia), São Paulo (Brazil), Doha (Qatar), Paris (France) and Barcelona, thus becoming one of the most elusive fugitives in recent years..
His arrival in Spain occurred in August 2022. The search began in Catalonia, but the movements of his acquaintances soon led the researchers to Tetouan.. The last images showed Furcal with red hair and, from that moment on, the fugitive team faced a new problem: the number of Dominicans with red-dyed hair in that Madrid neighborhood was too high to be able to close the fence. “She only went out at night and, in addition, she covered her hair with a net, which made it difficult to fully identify her”. They were also not clear that the fugitive had a fixed address, but they suspected that different acquaintances were giving her shelter.
The investigation ended up unraveling with the help of the General Police Station for Scientific Police. After months of surveillance and screening of telephones, the fugitive team targeted an alleged Colombian woman: “We detected an identity with which she seemed to be moving”. The next step was to request Furcal's fingerprints from the Dominican Republic and compare them with those in the databases of this second woman, which gave a positive result.. The agents proceeded to arrest him and thus confirmed his last suspicion: photographs with red hair had been useless for months. In Spain, Furcal had dyed himself blond..
“He made use of false documentation that he obtained on the black market for more than 1,000 dollars,” they explain from the National Police. This fact once again reinforces the idea that she had the collaboration of some criminal organization to reach Spain without being noticed through the white slave trade routes, but the sources consulted stress that it is a simple hypothesis. Be that as it may, that is one of the main unknowns that is still being raised today in the investigation: “Why did a woman who did not have an organized crime profile have all that potential to escape?”
In the absence of confirmation of his extradition, the answer to this question will remain in the hands of the Dominican Republic, but the video of the attack that went viral in April 2022 has already given way to another: a 25-second recording in which he sees how two police officers take Furcal by the arms towards a van. Although the fugitive is wearing a hairnet, her auburn hair peeks through her gaps.