The body of a child, aged 2 to 3, was discovered Tuesday in the sand on a beach in a town south of Barcelona.
A macabre discovery. The lifeless body of a baby was found on a beach in Roda de Bera, south of Barcelona, on Tuesday. The local police were alerted around 8am and reported this horrifying discovery to the Spanish and Catalan police services. The body had been lying in the sand since yesterday, but it was lying mistaken for a doll of passers-by, hence the late warning.
We inform you that this Matinada near the sea, on the beach of the Costa Daurada, the body of a man between us and three years old has appeared.
The zone is nearby and there is a risk that the corpse can be killed.We ask that Anar-Hi \ud83d\ude4f be avoided pic.twitter.com/P4uEWjEgih
— Ajuntament de Roda de Berà (@ajrodadebera) July 11, 2023
According to ElCaso, the police were there to initiate the initial investigation. At the end of the morning, while the Civil Guard cordoned off the area, a coroner picked up the child’s body. found in an advanced state of decompositionThe autopsy carried out on Wednesday will make it possible to establish the exact causes of the baby’s death or even its age. As of this writing, authorities believe the child was in between 2 and 3 years old.
A possible hypothesis
According to the first findings of the investigation, the remains should come from the sea. “One of the hypotheses is that it could be the Mare Mortum,” proclaimed the mayor of the municipality, Pere Virgili, referring to migrants who died crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe, whose words were quoted by Le Parisien were taken up.
“He wasn’t dressed for the beach”, the mayor explained, adding that the body was “dressed in a baby onesie, some kind of tracksuit and a jacket.” The area where the body was found remains closed to the public. The dismembered body of a woman was found on another beach in Tarragona more than a week ago. As of this writing, the two cases are unrelated.