The 23-year-old French girl missing in Barcelona, whose initials are L.P., the past was found 8 of June inside a smoking car parked on Avinguda del Paral·lel. I had lit a nautical flare by manipulating it, perhaps, inadvertently. She is safely admitted to the psychiatric unit of a city hospital. SOS Disappeareds raised the alarm on Wednesday and the Civil Guard posted an international order to try to locate her, stressing that this was the case of a vulnerable person. Until yesterday at the last minute it was not possible to deduce that the woman with the flares and the missing girl were the same person because this, when she was found by the Mossos d’Esquadra, He gave a false last name, according to police sources.
A Mossos patrol went to Paral·lel Avenue at one in the afternoon on Monday, alerted by a column of red smoke coming from a burning car parked on the street. As they approached they observed a young woman inside the vehicle, next to a dog, who had lit a marine flare, one of those used on the high seas to ask for help when it has been shipwrecked. The policemen saw that a truck equipped with a water tub was operating not far from there, they asked him to come and turn it off. When questioned by the agents, the woman, who was not identified, responded with a disjointed speech that caused them to check the vehicle’s data. It belonged to an owner who, when contacted by the Mossos, assured that he had denounced the theft of the car and confirmed that it kept nautical flares inside. The young woman was arrested and taken to the Les Corts police station.
Upon entering the dungeons, the agents, according to police sources, realized that she needed psychiatric care and was transferred to a hospital where she is currently still safely admitted, according to the same police sources. The problem was that when she was booked at the police station – where fingerprints were taken that had not yet allowed her to be identified – she gave her real name but a false last name, something that would be key for her family from France, not being able to contact her and not stating that she had been arrested, to give her up as missing. Yesterday, Thursday, three days later, the Civil Guard posted the international order and SOS Disappeared asked for citizen collaboration.
An agent from the Barcelona regional ward – the place from which the city patrols coordinate – knew the story of the arrest and transfer to the psychiatric center of this young woman, from whom the agents who told her highlighted her hairstyle: she wore braids of very long colors, up to the waist. This official was one of those who yesterday received the commission – motivated by the order of the Civil Guard – to check whether someone had denounced the disappearance of LP to the Mossos.When observing the photograph sent by the armed institute, she saw the plaits and also the full name. He contacted the detainee unit and sent them the photograph. “Is the young woman with the braids on Monday the one in the picture?” He asked them. The police replied that it was her.
Thus ended the complex history of nautical flares lit in a car on Paral·lel Avenue. A frequent call for help in the middle of the ocean that the girl activated in the center of Barcelona. The red smoke allowed to locate it. Her hairstyle, that her relatives knew was fine.
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