The Courts declare as deceased to the last missing person on the day of the Dana | News from the Valencian Community

Seven months after the Dana, the last of the three people who remained missing after the catastrophe has been declared deceased, according to the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community (TSJCV). The death toll thus amounts to 228. The Courts of Valencia, Picasent and Requena have resolved in recent months to grant this condition to the last disappeared, according to the same sources.

Three months after the flood, the State Security Forces and Bodies had the location as a priority objective by José Javier, a neighbor of Pedralba (3,124 inhabitants) who during the Dana was with his daughter, whose body was found; Elisabeth, who disappeared in Chiva (17,245); And Francisco, a grandfather who protected his two grandchildren after placing them on the roof of a car and which the flood surprised in Monserrat (7,301). Civil Guard sources indicated to this newspaper in January that the possibilities of finding these victims alive were void.

The statement as deceased of the last of the three missing has led to the suppression of the Data Integration Center (CID), which became Valencia on the day of the Aciaga Day, on October 29. The organ computed that the flood took the lives of 136 men and 91 women. And, among his work, he highlighted the identification of the bodies. To do this, the fingerprints (171 cases) and DNA samples (48) of the bodies were collated. Dozens of National Police agents and the Civil Guard have participated in these works with those responsible for the Institute of Legal Medicine.

To find the disappeared, the agents executed dozens of beaters in the areas near the Poyo ravine, trigger for the tragedy after causing floods as a result of their overflow. This newspaper attended one of them, in the industrial estate of Loriguilla, in Quart de Poblet (26,304 inhabitants). The officials used canes, drones and dogs specialized in detecting corpses in a day in which the risk areas combed up to five times.