For the first time since October 29, the date The offices ante mortem permitted by the National Police and the Civil Guard in collaboration with forensic doctors were counted at 8:00 p.m. this Tuesday. 89 active missing persons cases due to DANA and subsequent floods that hit the province of Valencia on October 29, according to figures from the Data Integration Center (CID).
These cases of active disappearances after the DANA of Valencia correspond exclusively to complaints in which relatives provided different data and biological samples allowing the subsequent identification of their relatives, as reported by the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community in a press release. .
The Superior Court of Valencia indicated that reports of missing persons with active cases in the offices ante mortem “They do not correspond to the total number of missing people that could have been generated by the tragedy, because there may be cases of disappearance that have not yet been reported.”
Furthermore, he added that these 89 active cases of disappearances reported by DANA “must be related to the number of deceased people on whom an autopsy has already been carried out at the Institute of Legal Medicine (IML) but is in progress . identified, which amounts to 62.
According to the latest CID report, closed this Tuesday at 8 p.m., forensic experts carried out throughout this episode 195 autopsies of people who died at DANA, the same ones who were admitted to the morgue of the City of Justice of Valencia .
Of this total number of deaths, 133 are fully identified. Of these identifications, 119 were made by fingerprint analysis and the remaining 14 by DNA sample matching.
Data that relatives of missing persons can provide in offices ante mortem to facilitate identification range from photographs, personal and anthropometric examinations, medical history, x-rays or clothing, personal effects, tattoos, dental records, surgical operations performed, use of internal prostheses or pacemakers, among others.
For identification through 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.
Offices ante mortem They are located, in the case of the Civil Guard, in the Patraix Commandat 4 rue Calamocha; and in the case of the National Police, it is located at the Superior Police Headquarters, Gran Vía Ramón y Cajal, 42. Both in the city of València.
In addition, mobile offices have been set up to collect data and complaints from relatives of missing people and avoid them having to travel to Valencia. They are located in the municipalities of Albal (Civil Guard post, Tabacalera street), Alfafar (municipal social assistance building, La Taleta street, 38) and Algemesí (local police checkpoint, Sant Nicolau de Bari street, 56). Its uninterrupted hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
The CID is a technical body composed of a Forensic Office and an Office of the State Security Forces and Corps, with specialized agents from the Civil Guard and the National Police, and its main function is to collect and supervise the various criminal complaints. . identification carried out by the different institutions of people who died during multiple victim events, under RD 32/2009.
This center 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 .
