Maritime authorities search for missing German in Ericeira

The search for a man missing at sea in Praia dos Pescadores, in Ericeira, in the municipality of Mafra, was suspended late on Monday, the commander of the port of Cascais told Lusa news agency.

According to Cascais port commander José Marques Coelho, the searches were suspended at 6:40 p.m.

Also, according to the official, searches will resume on Tuesday morning by land “due to the lack of conclusive evidence of the disappearance of the person,” since no reports of missing persons have been received by the regional police.

In previous statements by Luse, the commander of the Cascais port authority said the searches were launched after an alert was received at 10:15 a.m. from a member of the public “reporting the presence of clothing and personal effects on the sand in Pescadores.” beach”.

In a statement released this afternoon, the National Maritime Authority said it was looking for a “63-year-old man of German nationality” who went swimming at Pescadores beach in Ericeira, a district of Lisbon.

However, according to the commander of the port of Cascais, the man who went missing “is not the German citizen mentioned initially” because he was robbed, “his documents were found near the scene of the incident.” [onde estava a roupa]but it has already been confirmed that he is fine and that the clothes found on the beach do not belong to him.”

The search operations, coordinated locally by the port captain and the local commander of the Cascais Marine Police, involved units from the local Marine Police Command and the Cascais Rescue Station, as well as Ericeira volunteer firefighters and a Portuguese Air Force aircraft. Force.