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Updated Wednesday, February 28, 2024-15:08
Events They find the body of a woman who had been inside a suitcase for months in Vigo
If several Portuguese media pointed to a woman of that nationality as the deceased that the Police found in a suitcase in Vigo on February 22,
La Voz de Galicia
publishes that
she would, in fact, be Spanish
.
According to this newspaper, the body found next to a road would be that of a
woman in her 50s, a drug addict
, who would be sharing a room with an older man in a boarding house on Fragoso Street, about 200 meters from the place of the macabre discovery.
The roommate, who could be his partner, is missing.
The suitcase was found around Espedrigada Street,
in the Balaídos area,
and was laminated on the outside, but not in any way, but with a machine like those at airports.
A neighbor indicated that the suitcase had been in the place where it appeared for months, probably, according to her,
since August.
The advanced state of deterioration of the body made it
impossible to extract fingerprints
at first, so samples were sent to different specialized laboratories to advance the identification of fingerprints and the extraction of DNA to help in the investigation.
After the discovery of the body, several Portuguese media echoed the statements of the
family of Isabel Lima
, a Portuguese woman, originally from the town of Caminha, whom her relatives lost track of last September and whom they located in the olive city. on those dates.
Her sister maintains that the physical characteristics of the body coincide with those of Isabel, however, investigation sources insist that the body remains unidentified.
Official confirmation
from the authorities
is now awaited .