00:00I don't have any data of what you are asking me.
00:05Commander, could you give details of the operation?
00:08Good morning, I am the commander Mariano Ledesma, head of the Special Rescue Brigade of the City Fire Brigade.
00:14Well, it's been a day and a half that we've been working here,
00:18working day and night to find the person, with divers from here, from the City Fire Brigade.
00:24We found today, with the night guard that stayed around 5.30 in the morning,
00:31a bunch that was supposed to be the body.
00:36Then the command of the Fire Brigade was alerted,
00:40who dispatched the divers early in the morning,
00:44and well, they did the extraction of the body.
00:47Commander, was it within the logic that these 48, 72 hours passed
00:52and that the body ended up floating in this case, as you imagined?
00:56It is one of the situations that can happen if the body...
01:00I don't know if you are listening to me, Mercedes.
01:02...in the lakes, there is a lot of vegetation.
01:05Yes, perfect, Rolando.
01:06We can confirm then, by the identification of the relatives,
01:09that it is the body of the man who was missing since Monday.
01:13They have just identified him by some scars and tattoos that this 42-year-old man had.
01:23Well, and in principle, from now on, what is the procedure?
01:26The procedure now is to wait for the Mobile Criminal Unit of the City Police,
01:30that they finish doing the last paperwork in the place.
01:34Once they finish those tasks, the body is deposited to the ambulance
01:40and it goes to the Forensic Unit.
01:42In which sector of the lake did you find the body?
01:44About 30 meters from the shore.
01:47In the sector where we were looking,
01:51what happens is that the search is blind,
01:55there are about 3, 4 meters in the place where we were doing the dive
01:59and it is completely intact.
02:02Exactly where the witnesses had indicated that he had disappeared?
02:07No, no, no, no, because we have marked a buoy,
02:10a sector where they had told us and he was not in that sector.
02:13But there were two witnesses who had come out of the surface?
02:16No, we don't know that because when he dived,
02:20we don't know if he was swimming or he took the current, no, he's not here.
02:24Commander, could you then confirm the circumstances
02:27by which on Monday the data were obtained?
02:29Well, finally, what everyone assumed is confirmed.
02:33That man who went swimming in a lake, in the largest lake of Paralbo,
02:37in the lake of Regatas, everything indicates that he was hooked in the vegetation of the bottom.
02:41A place, attention, I say for those who think how beautiful the lake of Palermo is,
02:45no, it is 3, 4 meters, there he was hooked in the vegetation,
02:48they couldn't find him, for some reason people can't bathe,
02:51for some reason it is forbidden, there is no lifeguard,
02:53you don't have to get into the lakes of Palermo,
02:55not even if it's hot, not to get your feet wet, nothing,
02:58you don't have to get into the lakes of Palermo,
03:00the man was hooked in the vegetation of the bottom
03:03and just now his body has just been recovered.
03:08What else did Crescenti say, Mercedes?
03:13Well, Rolando, what they did was wait for the relatives,
03:16there are two brothers and a father who approached a while ago, nothing more,
03:20they worked with them, SAME personnel, to give him contention
03:23and then to prepare them for this recognition,
03:26which was finally done a few minutes ago, nothing more,
03:29I insist, it was through some tattoos and also some wounds
03:33that this man had, which they could identify quickly.
03:37In the first instance, he was asked if he had any kind of wound,
03:40the body in sight, as to understand if something had happened to him
03:44prior to entering the lake, this they said they were going to determine
03:49once they go through autopsy, but in principle they will not,
03:53they will also try to talk to the relatives
03:56about the previous situation of this man,
03:59we know that two years ago he was in a street situation,
04:02but they had minimal contact with them,
04:05to talk, for example, about the consumption of narcotics,
04:08if he had any mental health problems,
04:11understand a little the previous situation of what leads him to enter the lake,
04:15knowing and determining the danger that this represents.
04:19Well, now it will be a task, of course, from now on,
04:23to work together with the family, but the truth is that we can already confirm
04:27that it is the body of this man who entered meters from where we are,
04:30look, behind the boat there is a building that has a staircase,
04:34he went down that place, it is there where he left his shoes
04:37and began to walk on the lake,
04:41entering directly about 20, 30 meters from where we are,
04:44is where they end up finding the body,
04:47which at dawn floated directly after the tasks,
04:51two days of rescuers trying to remove the bottom.
04:54Thank you Mercedes.
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