24-year-old from Mexico
Missing student found dead in Berlin
08/06/2023, 02:45 am
In Berlin, numerous volunteers help in the search for a missing woman from Mexico. Her case also reaches the president of the Latin American country. Her body is found two weeks after her disappearance.
Her disappearance had also caused concern in Mexico: the body of the 24-year-old Mexican student has now been found in Berlin. A passer-by noticed a body floating in the Teltow Canal district of Adlershof on Saturday and alerted the police and fire brigade, the police said in the evening. According to current knowledge, no third-party fault can be assumed.
The woman had been missing since July 22. On that day she left her apartment in a student residence in Adlershof and has not been seen since, writes the Berlin newspaper “Tagesspiegel”. The police are still investigating the background. Friends of the 24-year-old had recently been looking for her with leaflets and posters. Volunteers also took part in searches. The “Tagesspiegel” speaks of more than 500 volunteers. The international police agency Interpol also issued a missing persons report.
It was only on Saturday afternoon that many people in Berlin expressed their solidarity with the student’s family and lit candles at the Mexican embassy. Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador spoke of progress in the investigation this week. According to their own statements, the Berlin police recently had almost 120 clues about the disappearance of the young woman.