A 30-year-old Italian tourist, Eva Valerio, was found dead on the beach in Dakhla, Morocco. The woman, originally from Thiene in the Vicenza area, was in the tourist resort, a destination for surfers in southern Morocco, to spend the holidays in a camper with a Moroccan friend. It was his friend who raised the alarm when two nights ago, the girl did not return to the camper. The investigations - it is learned from local sources - do not exclude any track even if for now we follow that of the accident. The most likely, as far as we learn in Italy, would be that of drowning. The searches started immediately and lasted until this afternoon.
It was the Moroccan Royal Gendarmerie that found the woman's body, on Boutahla beach, at the 31st kilometer of the Dakhla lagoon. The friend of the woman, who contributed to the research, is under interrogation while the prosecutor of the Dakhla region has arranged for an autopsy to be performed at the Agadir hospital. The Farnesina, in close connection with the Italian Embassy in Rabat and the Consulate General in Casablanca, is following the matter with the utmost attention. Our diplomatic-consular representations, underline to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, keep in close contact with the local Authorities, which are carrying out the appropriate checks of the case, and with the families of the victim, to whom they are providing every possible assistance.
To report the drowning hypothesis was Giovanni Casarotto, mayor of Thiene, the country of which the victim was originally, although he specified that he had learned that the Moroccan authorities are carrying out further investigations. The woman resided in Montecchio Precalcino, a municipality bordering Thiene. Here in the afternoon, at the request of the Farnesina, the carabinieri had gone to inform the family of the misfortune.
