The parents of Natacha de Crombrugghe, the young Belgian who disappeared in Peru last January, indicated on Friday that a skeleton was discovered next to the skull found a few days ago by fishermen, in an area where their daughter may have disappeared. . They had initially denied the discovery of a body, announced by the daily Le Repubblica, saying that the bones found were only “an old skull gruesomely staged with legs made of pieces of oars or wood” . “There is little chance that it will be Natacha,” they said.
But this Friday, they were able to obtain more details. The skull in question was between some rocks and, under these, a skeleton was discovered as well. The entire body was transported to the city of Arequipa, where it will undergo an autopsy and DNA analysis. According to the parents of Natacha de Crombrugghe, there is currently no information to say whether or not the body found is that of their daughter.
Natacha de Crombrugghe, a 28-year-old from Brussels, has been missing since January 24, 2022. The Belgian tourist was on a trek in Peru. That morning around 5 a.m., she had left a backpack in her hotel room in Cabanaconde, a small village perched over 3,000 meters above sea level in the Peruvian Andes, before leaving alone to contemplate the canyon of Colca, one of the deepest in the world.
