The National Maritime Administration announced a body washed ashore on Atlantic Beach, near Troy (Grandola) this Friday, but was unable to confirm whether it was one of the victims of the April 7 shipwreck.
It is the second body found in 24 hours after another body washed ashore on Thursday further south on Torre beach in Comporta (Grandola).
Both bodies were under investigation by the prosecutor’s office, which opened a criminal investigation into the sinking of a pleasure boat.
The CM knows that there is a strong possibility that both bodies belong to two victims who were on the ship and have not yet been found.
Both were located in areas close to the crash site, and the state of decomposition of the bodies was comparable to the time that had passed since the sinking.
On the day of the sinking, the bodies of two dead were discovered: an 11-year-old boy (Francisco Neves) and a 33-year-old man (Gabriel Caeiro).
The other two victims, whose bodies have not yet been identified, are 23-year-old Jose Caeiro, whose body was found on Thursday. The young man is the brother of Gabriel Caeiro, whose funeral took place on Thursday the 11th. In turn, the body of Ricardo Neves (45 years old), the father of Francisco Neves, was supposed to be found this Friday. Let us remind you that the boy’s funeral also took place on Thursday, the 11th.
There was also a 62-year-old helmsman on the ship, who was rescued alive.
The flooding led to the initiation of a criminal case
The flooding led to the initiation of a criminal case, in which there are currently no defendants, the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGR) said.
The same source also added that the investigation is looking into “facts that could have been part of the commission of negligent homicides.”
The criminal code provides for “imprisonment for a term of up to three years” or a “fine” for “killing another person through negligence.”
“In case of gross negligence, the agent is punishable by imprisonment for a term of up to five years,” the Criminal Code also states in paragraph 2 of Article 137, regarding murder by negligence.
On the 7th, a vessel called Lingrinhas was carrying four men and an 11-year-old boy, presumably to catch cuttlefish, when it sank about one and a half miles (about three kilometers) from Troy. , in the municipality of Grandola.
The ship, registered in Poland but with a mooring buoy at anchorage in the port of Setúbal, sank and then sank at 7:00 am on the 7th, but the maritime police were not alerted until three hours later, at 10:05 am. I am.
Author: João Saramago
Source: CM Jornal
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