SPAIN - Approx.11,490 people reported missing from January to May 2019

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More than 11,490 people from Spain reported missing from January to May this year * Euro Weekly News Spain
"CND data showed 2,163 missing people cases were still active. Figures from the Missing Persons and Unidentified Human Remains (PDyRH) showed there have been 187,554 cases since that system was introduced in 2010.

More than 55 per cent of those were resolved within 72 hours of a person being reported missing. More than one in ten, 11.7 per cent, were resolved after more than 30 days.


There are a total of 13,447 cases still active from the 187,554 total. More than 11,981 of those still missing are men while more than 1,362 are women, with the gender of 104 unknown.

Almost four in every five cases are for children aged between 13 and 17."

 

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No body, no crime? On the trail of Spain’s ‘perfect’ murderers
16 SEP 2015 -
"The lack of a corpse is no obstacle to making convictions in missing persons cases"
Each year, dozens of people go missing in Spain, and it is impossible to know how many of them might have been murdered. The police admit that with no evidence of wrongdoing, there is little they can do, and the cases are soon filed away.

"In January 2013, the Interior Ministry released figures on missing persons in Spain for the first time. They revealed that, between 2010 and 2012, 29,607 such reports were filed with the police, of which 27,279 were resolved. Which means that around 800 people a year go unaccounted for – that’s two per day. Many of them do not want to be found, but some, say organizations such as SOS Desaparecido, will have been murdered."

"We don’t look for bodies, but clues to a possible crime”

Pere Sánchez, head of the Catalan regional police’s missing persons unit"