Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-year mystery

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The Guardian

Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Elvira and her brothers, Ricard and Ramón, were left at a train station in Barcelona aged two, four and five. As an adult, when Elvira decided to look for her parents, she discovered a family history wilder than anything she had imagined. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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0:59.2	Three abandoned children, two missing parents and a 40-year-old mystery,
1:04.4	by Giles Tremlet.
1:22.8	On the 22nd of April 1984, a sandyhead ringlated two-year-old girl named
1:28.4	Elbira was driven with her brothers, Ricard and Ramon, aged four and five,
1:34.0	to a grand railway terminus in Barcelona.
1:37.1	The children dressed in designer clothes,
1:39.6	rode in a white Mercedes-Benz driven by their father's French friend, D'Enie.
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