Ana Knezevic, a Florida real estate agent who went missing in Spain, was using the dating app Bumble.

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by Yaron Steinbach

The Florida real estate agent who went missing in Spain earlier this month in the midst of a bitter divorce had just started using the dating app Bumble, and police say she was with at least two people she had been chatting with before she disappeared. The report states that the man was questioned.

Ana Knezevic, 40, arrived in Madrid nearly three weeks ago after deciding to travel to Europe while going through a bitter breakup with her Serbian-American husband David Knezevic, 35, according to family and friends. He went missing.

Troubling signs in the disappearance of a beautiful Fort Lauderdale woman include her telling friends the day after she was last seen that she had just met a man and felt an “instant” connection to him. Reports say that it is.

Deranged friends also said they later received strangely worded texts in Spanish from the Colombian-born Knezevic, but they did not believe the messages were from her.

Police also said surveillance video from the building where Knezevic was staying in Spain showed a man wearing a black motorcycle helmet spraying paint on two security cameras that were there on the day of Knezevic’s disappearance. It was announced that the situation was being monitored.

“My mother is in shock. I wish there had been something new, I wish Ana had come back already,” Knezevic’s brother, Felipe Henao, said in a Daily Mail report on Monday. Ta. “We hope that anyone with information will come forward and tell us what they know.”

Citing her close friend Sanna Rameau, the outlet reported that the brilliant real estate agent, who ran a tech support company with her estranged husband, had started using Bumble in the months leading up to her disappearance.

The newspaper said Spanish authorities tracked down at least two men Knezevic had been chatting with on a dating app before she was last seen outside her rented apartment on February 2.

Rameau told the magazine that she texted a friend on the day she disappeared but received no reply. The next day, she said, Rameau received a message from Knezevic that she had met a man and that she immediately had a “connection.”

According to the outlet, friends do not believe that the WhatsApp messages they have received from Knezevic since February 2 were written by her. The newspaper said Knezevic was unable to meet her friend who was traveling to Barcelona, ​​and she was officially declared missing on February 5.

Rameau, who traveled to Spain to help search for Knezevic, said she did not know whether her friend was using Bumble to find a romantic date or was using the app in “BFF” mode. told.

“All I know is that the police are in contact with some of the people she was talking to,” Rameau said. “I met one of them and they said they were not romantically involved and that they were just friends.

“I’ve always said I need to get access to her phone and find out what platforms she was using. I need to look for clues from there, but I’m not there yet. No,” she told the magazine.

Henao said police had not yet traced the man who spray-painted the security cameras at the place where his sister was staying in Spain.

Police in Madrid and Fort Lauderdale, which have launched investigations on both sides of the Atlantic, declined to comment, as did the American embassy in the Spanish capital.

The Spanish Association for Missing Persons has posted Knezevic’s photo around the city, but has received no response, said spokesman Joaquín Amirs.

The Knezewiczes, who have been married for 13 years, run EOX Technology Solutions Inc., which provides computer support to businesses in South Florida.

Records show they own the home and two other properties in Fort Lauderdale, one of which is in foreclosure.

In an interview with Fort Lauderdale detectives, Henao called the divorce “terrible.”

The whereabouts of David Knezewicz are unknown.

After Ana disappeared, her brother texted her husband and asked if he knew where Ana was.

My husband replied, “What’s wrong?” Before Ana was able to tell Henao that she was missing, her brother already knew, he said.

“There is nothing else,” Henao said.

Rameau told The Associated Press that Ana never told her that she was afraid of her husband or that he was abusive.

Ana rented an apartment in Madrid’s wealthy and fashionable Salamanca district, traveled to Austria with Rameau in January, met a Spanish friend in Barcelona on February 5th, and then returned to Madrid on February 8th. I was planning to meet Mr. Rameau again.

Rameau said there was no chance his friend would elope with a stranger.

“I’m desperate to find answers,” she told The Associated Press. “We are desperately trying to find out who did this and why.”

with post wire