Father of Emma, Girl at Center of Cancún Abduction Case, Denies Being Violent

Cancún, Quintana Roo — The father of Emma Solís Aldana, the girl at the center of a Cancún disappearance case that authorities now treat as an abduction, publicly denied accusations that he is a violent man, responding to claims made by his ex-wife, Fátima Aldana Gil.

Eliezer Solís Arjona said he has never committed any form of violence against the mother of his daughter, and he rejected the allegations she made in videos that circulated after the pair were reported missing.

“Based on the investigative work that has been carried out, we want to clarify some points without obstructing or disclosing information from the Prosecutor’s Office,” Solís Arjona said in Cancún. “First of all, everything Fátima has said in the videos where she mentions that I am a violent father, a violent person, has never happened. There has never been any kind of evidence she could produce, and that is why I dare to say she has not shown any.”

No Contact Beyond Court and Visitation Center

Solís Arjona said the two have had no interaction outside official settings for the past two years, apart from the Cecofam, the government-run family visitation center in Cancún.

“Since these two years that we have been dealing with this entire legal situation, I have distanced myself, I have separated myself from her family, even from her, and the only places where we have interacted have been in the courts and at the Cecofam in Cancún,” he said.

He added that they barely speak to one another and that their only contact comes through their ongoing legal dispute.

“And that is without even speaking to each other, and all of it because of the legal matter we are dealing with now. We are still pursuing the complaints, and we are trying to refute them with all the information we have in order to truly demonstrate that what she is saying is false, all of it is false,” he said.

He also denied harassing her, sending her messages or monitoring her home, as she has claimed.

“Nobody is obstructing her. I have not been obstructing her, I have not been threatening her. As for her claim that I have been sending messages and watching her at her home — parents have their cameras. I really have no idea where she gets that information from,” he said.

Account of How Fátima Left Cancún

Turning to Iván, a friend of his ex-partner who helped her leave Cancún, Solís Arjona said the man did not use a motorcycle but instead rented a vehicle after landing at the Cancún airport.

“Iván did not come on a motorcycle. He arrived at the Cancún airport, rented a vehicle, went to where he was going to stay and did not move, he didn’t even go to the beach. He came from Mexico City to Cancún and did not leave his room; the next day he went to pick up Fátima and returned to Mexico City. All of it tracked by GPS, the location of the van he rented,” he said.

He added that the group detoured to Oaxaca and arrived days later at TAPO, the Mexico City bus terminal. He said the journey is documented through GPS and that their phone communications have been intercepted.

He stressed that Iván was detained for failing to appear when summoned, because he contacted the family but not the authorities.

Solís Arjona said his only wish is that his daughter not live through this situation and that he be able to see her, noting that a month has passed since the disappearance was reported in Cancún. The case is now considered an abduction of Emma by her mother, Fátima Aldana Gil.

He concluded that the violence complaint stems from a diaper rash on the baby, which he said cannot be considered an act of aggression.