The Civil Guard Judicial Police has opened an investigation after the appearance in waters near Ibiza and Formentera of several bodies of people tied from feet and hands. Sources of the Armed Institute confirm that they have found between two and five bodies with the limbs tied in recent dates, which have not completed, in the water of the Pitiusas. Researchers are waiting for the results of the autopsies to determine the cause of deaths and initiate work to identify the bodies, although one of the hypotheses they handle is that they were migrants traveling in patera to the islands.
The Civil Guard has confirmed that in recent weeks the bodies have been found between two and five people with the limbs tied, which could indicate that they would have died violently. As Diario de Mallorca has advanced, the first of the bodies was sighted on May 18 by the crew of a Belgian flag ship, which gave notice to maritime rescue of the presence of a body floating in the sea near Formentera. The second was found a few days later also in waters near this island.
The finding of the islands has increased in recent years. In the first six months of this 2025 the authorities have found 31 lifeless bodies that have been dragged by the currents to the beaches and coasts of the islands. The majority belong, according to police bodies, to migrants who have been victims of shipwrecks when they tried to reach the archipelago. Last February, the survivors of a patera who went out with 24 people on board from Algeria denounced that at least five people had disappeared after throwing themselves into the sea during the journey, after the drift vessel remained. The most recent case is that of a body recovered on June 4 in the area of Cala Jondal, in Ibiza.
The Government delegate in the Balearic Islands, Alfonso Rodríguez, has urged to respect the work of the Civil Guard and the work of identification of the bodies. “It is the finding that we are,” said Rodríguez, who has insisted that the government works within its powers to solve the problem and save lives from those who venture to go out to the sea “which is something that there are some that banalize”, in reference to PP and VOX. For her part, the president of the Balearic Government, Marga Prohens, has claimed the central government to act “to put an end to the migratory drama” and has insisted on the application of a “effective” immigration policy. “” Hard hand against the mafias, goodism has already ended in these islands, “he said.
