THE younger sister of missing Madrid sixth-former Diana Quer has been arrested for 'threatening' her mother.
Valeria Quer, 16 (pictured left) was arrested on Thursday at 15.00 and, after an express hearing by the prosecution at the juvenile court in Pozuelo de Alarcón – the up-market Madrid commuter town where the family lives – was released yesterday (Friday).
Until the end of August last year, Valeria lived with her missing 18-year-old sister, mother Diana López Pinel and this woman's boyfriend until a few days after the young student went missing in A Pobra do Caramiñal (A Coruña province, Galicia) where the family has a holiday home they have stayed in every summer since 2001.
But custody of Valeria was withdrawn from the girls' mother, and the younger daughter has lived with their father since last August.
Details of why this happened have never been revealed, but the wealthy family was said to have turbulent relationships between all its members with the girls caught in the crossfire of a messy divorce – Diana Quer (pictured centre) was taking tranquillisers on prescription and had been suffering anorexia, and Valeria has self-harmed and been plagued by panic attacks.
Diana López Pinel has been investigated by the court in Ribeira (A Coruña), but this is likely to have no steam in it since every possible theory concerning the young Diana's vanishing remains open.
She is thought to have been seen 20 kilometres away in the Rianxo district, near the river Arousa port of Taragoña, getting out of a car and into another apparently voluntarily, with witnesses describing her as being in the company of 'undesirable-looking young men'.
This was in the early hours of the day she was reported missing and about two hours after she left the town fiestas in A Pobra to walk back to the family holiday home, during which time she is known to have been travelling in a car – as a passenger, since she had been studying for her driving test at the time – given the pattern of her mobile phone signals.
The case remains sub judice, but has been repeatedly described by police as 'very complex'.
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