This Thursday, the Valencia City Hall recorded dozens of deaths because of DANA, which caused its collapse. It is for this reason that the Generalitat Valenciana announced that it would allowat the Feria Valencia to carry out the autopsies.
Initially, the City of Justice of Valencia was created to receive the bodies of the fatal victims of the floods, but its capacity is 80 and the bodies arriving unfortunately exceed this figure, because DANA has already caused 155 deaths in the Valencian Community.
Its transfer to this space is the preliminary step to carrying out the corresponding autopsies and the work carried out. for the identification of deceased persons. In addition, the General Directorate of the National Police and the Central Directorate of the Civil Guard have also set up specific offices. ante mortemwhere relatives can provide data that facilitates the process of identifying victims.
These bodies arrived in recent hours from the different municipalities affected by DANA and after the Institute of Legal Medicine of Valencia activated nine forensic teams, which They continue to carry out the removal of corpses.
Forensic strengthening
The service judges of the judicial districts concerned delegate these procedures to specialists and to the state security forces and bodies, reported the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community (TSJCV), which indicated that this process is one that has the most success. top priority at the moment.
Likewise, for its part, the Ministry of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with Justice sent eight forensic experts and three other forensic assistants in Valencia to collaborate in the work of identifying victims, as Department sources told LaSexta.
This team from the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences (IMLyCF) joins the eight other forensic experts and a forensic assistant sent this Wednesday. The ministry says 20 of its agents have traveled to the province to work alongside local authorities to be able to “identify victims as quickly as possible”.
