The audio of the fisherman who found the remains of a missing young man: “I opened the belly of the shark and found a forearm with a tattoo”

Diego Barria He had been missing since February 18. The 32-year-old was last seen that night by fishing friends as he rode his mountain bike to his home in Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut province. He stopped walking, talked with them for a while, and told his family by phone that he was late. It was 11:30 p.m. This was the last communication they had with him.

About 40 hours later, his quad, destroyed as well as his helmet, was found in a coastal area between Puerto Visser and Rocas Coloradas, reason for which the personnel of the fire brigade and the naval prefecture quickly carried out an intense search work, both by air and sea.

After a week of research, the worst news has arrived: they found remains of his body inside a fruit bat that a fisherman pulled out of the sea.

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Agents of the Naval Prefecture of Caleta Córdova confirmed the discovery of a forearm tattooed with a green and red rose with an illegible inscription, very similar to the tattoo that Diego had. Finally, his parents identified the body and confirmed that it was their son.

The strongest hypothesis of what happened is that Barria had an accident with his quad and that, while he was unconscious on the coast, “the great high tide pushed him inland,” José Mazzei, undersecretary for Civil Protection, told the local press a while ago. A few days.

What is striking is that Barría was not a rookie or an improviser. Indeed, on their social networks it was displayed above vehicles adapted by the sea or on the dunes.

After learning the tragic news, the daily The conference posted the conversation WhatsApp than the fisherman who found Diego’s remains inside the 1.5 meter long spiny dogfish kept at his cousin’s house, where he told her what had happened.

“Yes, cousin. I was so unlucky that I found it inside a shark. I started to open the shark’s belly and found a tattooed forearm. We raised things, we came to the prefecture of Caleta de Olivia and yes, it was him”, we hear him lament over the audio.

“We caught him at 8:30 a.m. and notified the prefecture at 9 a.m. I told him what had happened and we gave him the bag with the human remains, then I showed the prefecture a photo with the tattoo that said ‘Josefina’ on his forearm. and he told me what it wassaid the man, who said that after giving a statement to the prosecution and the tracing division, he was released around 3 p.m. on Sunday.

The affair moved the entire region of Chubut. Virginia Brugger, the victim’s wife, called for the greatest possible collaboration from the locals on social networks: “Just a sign to be able to find you, please. Give him my madness, don’t leave me, I pray to God you show up soon. Here I am waiting for you. Don’t scare me like that.”

The last message asking her husband to appear was on February 24. Pablo Domínguez, another of Barría’s relatives, fired him this Sunday from his Facebook account. “I take the best memories shared with you. Hugs in crazy heaven.”

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