The Civil Guard has identified the human remains of the baby found on a beach in Roda de Berà (Tarragona) last week. The Criminalistics Service of the police force has determined that it is an eight-month-old girl who was traveling with her parents in a small boat from Algeria and who was shipwrecked in waters near the coast of the Balearic Islands.
Once the genetic profile of the DNA samples taken by the Organic Unit of the Judicial Police of the Tarragona Command was obtained, a positive match was found, by family relationship, with a fully identified woman whose body was recovered on past April 6.
According to police sources, thirteen other people were traveling in the boat that left the Algerian coast of Cherchel and there were no survivors. So far, only eight bodies have been recovered from that shipwreck, including that of the baby whose body was found in an advanced state of composition.
In this way, the main hypothesis used by the researchers is confirmed, who suspected that the girl had been swept away by the Mediterranean tides for weeks, until she ended up on the coast of Tarragona. It is one of the migratory routes coming from the beaches of the African country with the aim of reaching Spain through the coasts of Almería, Murcia, the Balearic Islands and Alicante.
The investigation of the facts is still in the hands of the head of the investigating court number two of El Vendrell (Barcelona), who opened proceedings as a result of the discovery of the body on the beach.
