The offices ante mortemenabled by the National Police and the Civil Guard in collaboration with forensic doctors, counted at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 5 89 cases of active missing persons due to DANA and subsequent floods, which affected the province of Valencia on October 29according to the figures of the Data Integration Center (CID).
These active cases correspond exclusively to complaints where relatives have provided different data and provided biological samples that allow the subsequent identification of the missing, as reported by the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community (TSJCV).
The CID highlights that the reports of missing persons with active files in the offices ante mortem are not equivalent to total number of missing that could have generated the tragedy, since there may be cases of disappearance that have not yet been reported.
Furthermore, these 89 active cases of reported disappearances must be put in relation to the number of deceased people on whom autopsies have already been performed in the country. Institute of Legal Medicine (IML) but are pending identification. The unidentified bodies total 62.
According to the latest report from the CID, closed at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, the forensics have carried out throughout this episode 195 autopsies of deceased in DANAthe same ones who have entered the morgue of the City of Justice of Valencia. Of that total, 133 are fully identified. Of the identifications, 119 have been achieved through fingerprint analysis, and the remaining 14 by matching DNA samples.
The data that relatives of missing persons can provide in the offices ante mortem to facilitate identification range from photographs, personal and anthropometric reviews, medical histories, x-rays or clothing for personal effects, tattoos, dental records, surgical operations performed, use of internal prostheses or pacemakers, among others.
For identification through genetic profiling, the greatest reliability is based on biological samples from direct ancestors and descendants, as well as the delivery of personal effects belonging to the missing person, such as a toothbrush or a razor blade.
The offices ante mortem They are located, in the case of the Civil Guard, in the Patraix Command, at 4 Calamocha Street. In the case of the National Police, it is at the Higher Police Headquarters, at Gran Vía Ramón y Cajal, 42. Both They are located in the city of Valencia.
In addition, mobile offices have been installed to collect data and complaints from relatives of missing persons, to prevent them from having to travel to Valencia, in the towns of Albal (Civil Guard Post, Tabacalera Street), Alfafar (Municipal Social Welfare Building, La Taleta Street, 38) and Algemesi (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 a technical body that is made up 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 gather and supervise the different crime reports. identification carried out by the different institutions of people who died in events with multiple victims, by virtue of Royal Decree 32/2009.
This center is the only one authorized by that decree to publicly provide official figures to the media, through the Communication Office of the Superior Court of Justice of the Country of Valenciarelating to the forensic medical and scientific police treatment of the event.
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