2025-05-09
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The mystery of the nameless girl found dead in a Spanish border town.
By Giles Tremlett.
Read by Luis Soto.
Nobody can recall who first phoned the police on the morning of the 4th of September 1990,
but everyone remembers the girl.
Her body, hanging from a pine tree on a steep slope above the Spanish frontier town of Porbu,
was visible to anyone looking up from the beach.
or across from the opposite hillside.
She was barefoot, with grey-blue eyes and thick chestnut-brown hair.
She wore blue dungarees over a turquoise-green shirt.
Porbu, squeezed into a cauldron-like Mediterranean cove,
had only 2,000 inhabitants, but plenty of police officers.
In these years before the Schengen Agreement, Guards were stationed on the French border,
but these officers were experts in immigration and smuggling, not violent deaths.
Instead, Enrique Gómez, a 35-year-old investigator from the Guardia Civil police force,
was called in from the nearby city of Figueres to investigate.