Emiliano Sala's heartbroken swimwear model ex-girlfriend today revealed her grief as his plane vanished over the Channel and suggested the mafia could be responsible.
Model Berenice Schkair, 27, made the extraordinary claim on social media after the new Cardiff City star's plane went missing over the English Channel after taking off in Nantes, France.
Sala and his pilot last made contact from their Piper FA-46 Malibu just off Alderney at 8.30pm on Monday and the pair are missing presumed dead after wreckage was spotted in the sea.
Posting photographs of them together, she wrote on Instagram: 'I want to wake up and all of this to be a lie. Please investigate because I cannot believe this accident. Don't suspend the search for bad weather when you only just found objects floating.
'They're losing time and aren't investigating. I feel impotent, I'm in a nightmare. I cannot stop thinking about you, Emi.'
She continues: 'The thing I regret most is not having told you that you made me feel like I haven't felt in a while and I love you. Why does this misfortune happen to such a fascinating man full of projects, hard working, a good person dedicated to his job.
'Emi, my heart is broken. I still cannot understand it. I'm destroyed, I feel pain, fear and anger for not being able to do anything. I know you're strong. We are waiting for you.'
In a separate post, Schkair wrote: 'Investigate the football mafia because I don't believe this was an accident.'
When asked by Argentine media outlet Infobae for a comment, she said: 'The only thing I want is for him to show up. Out of respect for the family I prefer to wait, I'm going to say what I need to say in a few days.'
The model was born in the Tres de Febrero area of the Argentine capital Buenos Aires.