The Mossos search at sea for Levi Davis, the rugby player who disappeared in Barcelona seven months ago

Levi Davis, the missing British rugby player in Barcelona.Harry Trump (Getty Images)

The Mossos d'Esquadra search this Thursday in the waters of the port of Barcelona to Levi Davis, the British rugby player disappeared in Barcelona seven months ago. A boat of the maritime police has left early in the morning from the port of Vilanova i la Geltrú, where they have one of their headquarters, towards the southern mouth of the pier, next to the aquatic unit. There a person was seen in the water in the early hours of October 30. A cruise ship gave the alert, but the police only found in the sea the life jacket that they threw from the ship, without missing any passengers.

The intention of the Mossos is to search for several days the area of the port of Barcelona. Although the place was already tracked by the teams of the Civil Guard and maritime rescue when the sighting occurred, the Mossos committed to the family of the young man a month ago, in a meeting they held with his mother, to return to look at sea, now that all the clues paid the thesis that the young man could be the person who fell into the water. From the cruise ship MSC Bellisima they heard at 6.30 in the morning someone shouting "help", so clearly that they even threw a life jacket at him.

The disappearance of Levi Davis has been a nightmare for his family, and has been a great following in the United Kingdom, where the 24-year-old had participated in various reality and television contests, as well as playing in the professional rugby league. The night he lost track, Davis took a ferry from Ibiza, where he was with a friend, to Barcelona. The cameras locate his last steps in an Irish pub on La Rambla, where he was recorded. His phone gives the last signal on repeaters near the port and also in that area his passport is found.

Police have been searching for Levi Davis ever since, including in areas of Barcelona's narco-flats. In a complicated personal drift, according to his mother, the family hired a team of detectives to help in the search that offered a reward of 11,500 euros for any clues. Two months later he broke with them when they linked Davis' disappearance to a debt of more than 100,000 euros with the Somali family and hinted that he could be kidnapped.

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