The preliminary conclusions of the autopsies carried out this Tuesday in the Navarro Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences to the bodies of man and child found dead in the Sierra de Urbasa indicate that the father, Txetxo Apestegui Fernández, 54, threw himself into the void hugging his son Mateo, 7.
The autopsies carried out in Pamplona, likewise, They have ruled out that the child died from asphyxiation or strangulation and also discards the presence of toxic substances in both corpses.
Trauma from the fall
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Both bodies had trauma compatible with fallingwhich was about 200 meters high, and that of the child in particular showed fewer injurieswhich would indicate that his fall would have been cushioned, possibly by being wrapped by his father’s bodyaccording to judicial sources.
In order to clarify what happened, the agents of the UOPJ (Organic Unit of the Judicial Police) of the Civil Guard from Navarreunder the judicial protection of the Court of First Instance and Instruction number 2 of Estella-Lizarra, try to reconstruct all the previous steps that the man and his son took before the tragic death, through the taking statements from people around them, surveillance cameras and inspection of the van.