Mysterious death in Tenerife: Couple discovered in tourist complex!

Mysterious death in Tenerife: Couple discovered in tourist complex!

Teneriffa, Spanien - In Tenerife, the corpses of two young holidaymakers were discovered. The police assume a non -natural death and has set up a murder commission. The corpses found themselves in an apartment of a three-star tourist complex in the south of the island. Other vacationers had perceived a strong stench in a hallway of the facility and alerted the authorities. During the examination it turned out that the corpses were in an advanced state of decay, so that a visual identification was no longer possible.

The check-in documents indicate that it is a few mid-twenties: an Italian man and a woman from Argentina who most recently lived in Tenerife. The police are examining several hypotheses for the cause of death, including a possible overdose of drugs. An autopsy is still pending to clarify the exact circumstances of their death, such as t-online reported.

missing British vacationer and his remains

In another tragic incident, the 19-year-old brothers Jay Slater has been missing since mid-June 2024. On July 15, 2024, human remains were found in the Masca region, where Slater's cell phone was last located. The police have now confirmed that it is probably Jay Slater after an examination of the fingerprints has confirmed this suspicion.

At the site, the belongings and clothing of the young man were also discovered. Injuries to the body could have been caused by a fall by a cliff. After a festival, Jay Slater had disappeared alone on his way to his holiday accommodation when he told his girlfriend that he got lost and hardly had a battery. The family had hope until the end of finding their son alive and collecting over £ 56,000 over Gofundme. An autopsy for the exact cause of the death is still pending, reports Merkur .

crime on the Canary Islands

The incidents also make a lightly on the crime situation on the Canary Islands. According to the Interior Ministry, there were 27,381 crimes registered in the first quarter, which corresponds to a decline of 3.8 percent compared to the previous year. However, the authorities recorded a worrying increase in attempted or actual homicide by 150 percent. In particular on Tenerife, according to Tenerife-News climb.

drug offenses rose by 21 percent, while the number of rapes has also increased by 11.1 percent. Almost all islands recorded a decline in crimes, but the increase to Fuerteventura is alarming, where the crimes rose by 19.6 percent. This development raises questions about the security for tourists and locals and shows the challenges in front of which the security authorities are on the Canary Islands.