He mentioned the causes of the death of the 28-year-old from Brussels, including the skeleton was found on September 21 in a canyon in the Andes in Peru. The Belgian tourist had been missing since January 24.
Dany Humpire Molina told the newspaper El Popular that Natacha was killed “with a violent blow to the front of the skull”. He confided that no other part of the Brussels woman’s body had been found, apart from the skull and some skeletal remains which made it possible to carry out DNA research and identify the limbs as those of Natacha de Crombrugghe. . “The body ended up between the rocks and underwater. Due to the force of the water, it was badly damaged.”
The legal expert does not exclude that the Belgian tourist was assaulted, but it is impossible to say so. “It requires even more research on the remains of the body,” he says.
A deadly selfie?
Our Peruvian colleagues also interviewed Joel Quicana, an experienced rescuer who helped find Natacha de Crombrugghe. “I think she fell while standing on one of the two bridges over the river: the Tapay or the Yaguar. I think she wanted to take a selfie and fell. Why did I say that? If she had fallen from a cliff, we would certainly have found traces of the fall. But there were none”, he believes to know.
Nos confrères d’The Latest News indiquent que the parents of Natacha de Crombrugghe have, as promised, offered the reward of 15,000 dollars, or 15,500 euros, to the three brothers who found the remains of the Brussels woman while fishing.