Underwater search for missing rugby player in Barcelona after leaving Ibiza

AgenciasIbiza18/05/23 16:06

Mossos d'Esquadra have launched an underwater search for new evidence in the case of the British rugby player Levi Simeon Davis, who was last seen in Barcelona on 29 October and whose disappearance was reported on 9 November. Although the police have not officially confirmed the identity of the person they are looking for, sources close to the case have stated that it is Davis, according to Efe.

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The investigators located the last movements of the missing person in an area close to the port and received information that pointed to the possibility that a person had fallen into the water on the night of the events in a place close to where Davis was. Davis, 24, disappeared on 29 October in Barcelona after arriving by ferry from Ibiza and was last seen in an Irish pub on the Rambla.

Weeks later his passport was found in the port of Barcelona and neither his mobile phone or his bank cards have been used since. Although the hypothesis of a criminal disappearance was initially considered, this line of investigation was ruled out.

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— Bath Rugby (@BathRugby) November 6, 2022

Therefore, with this new device they are looking for "any evidence that could confirm the hypothesis of a possible accidental death", after they had already carried out an exhaustive search in which they did not find any body, but they did not rule out that they had found objects or clothes of the missing person. The search, which began this morning, is being carried out by the Maritime Police and the Aquatic Unit, and the investigation, which is being conducted by Barcelona Magistrate's Court 7, is still open.