An Italian-plated car lay at the bottom of a precipice in São Lourenço, Chaves, for ‘some days’ before GNR police went to investigate this week. Inside, they found the body of a man, ‘carbonised’.
A terrible accident, or something more sinister? PJ police from Vila Real think the latter, writes Correio da Manhã today.
For a start, the Italian plates were found to be ‘false’; the body had ‘no identification’ papers on it, or apparently in the car – and the point at which the vehicle had seemingly careered off the EN213 made very little sense: there were no brake marks on the road above; the place where it fell was ‘not consistent with a fall at high speed’ and the point at which it broke through a low wall lining the EN 213 was almost the exact width of the car itself.
Correio da Manhã states the obvious: “Without identification of the body, this investigation becomes more complicated”.
The body “presented various traumatic injuries which could have occurred as a consequence of the fall, or been inflicted beforehand”, the paper adds.
An autopsy will now take place, while the battered, burnt out car has been towed to the Vila Real police pound where it will undergo more rigorous forensic testing.
Chaves is an area of northern Portugal very close to the border with Spain.
Source material: Correio da Manhã/ Observador
