Barcelona (EFE) on the morning of this Tuesday.
As reported to EFE by sources close to the case, which is under the secrecy of the proceedings, the baby’s body was located around 8:30 in the morning on the sand of the beach, which has been surrounded by a police device.
The Roda de Berà Local Police have notified the Civil Guard of the discovery of the human remains, for which reason the armed institute has dispatched several teams and judicial police officers to initiate the appropriate investigations.
According to the sources, the human remains, in an advanced state of decomposition, would correspond to a baby or a very young child.
The agents are investigating whether it is a violent death, according to the aforementioned sources, who have added that the coroner and the judicial delegation are traveling to the place of discovery.
The mayor of Roda points out that the dead child found on the beach could be a migrant
The mayor of Roda de Berà (Tarragona), Pere Virgili, has pointed out that the corpse of a child, between two and four years old, found on the beach of the town could be that of a shipwrecked person from a migrant boat who would have died drowned in the sea and that the currents would have carried to this beach on the Costa Dorada.
In statements to the RAC-1 radio station, the mayor of Roda de Berà explained that it was an operator from the beach cleaning brigade who found the body, in an advanced state of decomposition and without a head, of a minor who would have between 2 and 4 years old.
“At first it looked like a doll, but it is a decapitated corpse, which had been in the sea for a long time. Here we can make hypotheses and assumptions, and it could be one more corpse of the ‘mare mortum’ that we have in front of our beaches. It is one of the hypotheses that we have on the table”, stated the mayor.
“We have perimetered the area and the Civil Guard has taken over the investigation. Any corpse that potentially drags the sea to land is their responsibility”, the mayor pointed out.
The body was wearing some kind of jacket. “It is not the typical clothing of a child who goes to the beach,” Virgili has indicated.