The human remains found on a beach in Roda de Berà last Tuesday belong to a six-month-old baby. This has been confirmed by the Civil Guard after the forensic study carried out.
The judge of the Investigating Court 7 of El Vendrell (Tarragona) investigates the discovery of the dismembered corpse of the girl "in an advanced state of decomposition" who at first was thought to be between two and four years old.
Around half past eight in the morning, the Local Police and the Mossos d'Esquadra received a notice from an operator of the cleaning brigade, they went to the place and cordoned off the area. The Civil Guard is in charge of the investigation.
Within the framework of the investigation, several samples of the corpse have been sent to the Criminalistics Service of the Civil Guard so that they can proceed with their scientific study, which could provide information on the causes of death. The most plausible hypothesis is that it would be a drowned migrant in the Mediterranean and that she could have been swept away by the tides when she was sailing in a boat towards the European coasts.
The body had been on the beach for more than a day. In fact, some regular bathers claimed to have seen the lump already on Monday, covered in sand, but they thought it was a rag doll whose head had been torn off. He was wearing a bodysuit and jacket. "It's not the typical clothing for a child who goes to the beach," said the town's mayor, Pere Virgili.
"That it is not related to the discovery a few days ago of the remains of a woman...", predicted the mayor. A little over a week ago, the dismembered corpse of a woman appeared on the Miracle beach in Tarragona, an investigation also assumed by the Civil Guard.
The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, publicly transferred his "solidarity" and that of the central government to the family of the minor, while explaining that the investigation into this event "has been declared secret." "When we have more data on it, and they can be transferred, it will be done so," he added.
