The number of people missing following the DANA in Valencia stands at 89, according to figures from the Data Integration Center (CID). For the first time, initial data is being offered on active missing persons cases following the worst cold snap of the 21st century.
The figures published this Tuesday “correspond exclusively to complaints in which relatives provided different data and provided biological samples allowing the subsequent identification of their loved ones”.
The statistics were compiled by the ante mortem offices authorized by the National Police and the Civil Guard in collaboration with forensic doctors.
The reports of missing persons by DANA of Valencia, with an active file in the ante mortem offices, “do not correspond to the total number of missing persons that could have been generated by the tragedy, since there may be cases that did not been reported yet.
In addition, these 89 active cases of reported disappearances must be related to the number of deceased people on whom autopsies have already been carried out at the Institute of Legal Medicine (IML) of Valencia but who are awaiting identification, which amounts to 62.
As ABC reported this Tuesday, investigators estimate that there could remain fewer than two hundred disappearances to be solved.
According to the latest report from the CID, closed this Tuesday at eight o’clock in the afternoon, forensic experts carried out during this entire episode 195 autopsies of people who died at DANA, the same ones who were admitted to the City morgue . of Justice of Valencia.
Of this total, 133 are fully identified. Of these identifications, 119 were made by fingerprint analysis and the remaining 14 by DNA sample matching.
The data that relatives of missing persons can provide in ante mortem offices to facilitate identification range from photographs, personal and atropometric examinations, medical history, x-rays or clothing for personal effects, tattoos, dental records, surgical operations performed, use of internal documents. prostheses or pacemaker, among others.
For identification by genetic profiling, the greatest reliability lies in biological samples from ancestors and direct descendants, as well as the delivery of personal effects belonging to the missing person such as a toothbrush or razor blade.
The ante mortem offices are located in the case of the Civil Guard at the Patraix Command, at 4 Calamocha Street, and in the case of the National Police, at the Superior Police Headquarters, at 42 Gran Vía Ramón y Cajal, both in the city. from Valencia.
In addition, mobile offices have been installed to collect data and complaints from relatives of missing people, and thus avoid them having to travel to Valencia, in the towns of Albal (Civil Guard post, Tabacalera street ), Alfafar (municipal social assistance building). Social, Calle La Taleta, 38) and Algemesí (local police checkpoint, Calle Sant Nicolau de Bari, 56). Its uninterrupted hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
The CID is the only one authorized by this Royal Decree to publicly provide to the media, through the Communications Office of the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community, official figures relating to the forensic and forensic treatment of the event .
