A week ago on Tuesday, Danka disappeared without a trace in Banjsko Polje near Bor in Serbia. Since then, thousands of helpers and the Serbian police have been searching for the girl, who will turn two on May 6th. So far without success. The hottest lead has been to Vienna since Sunday. A video appeared that is supposed to show Danka in Vienna. A 57-year-old Serb living in Vienna filmed a little girl at the Schottentorring tram stop in Vienna. She is said to have been there on Saturday around 8 p.m. accompanied by two Romanian women.
Worldwide search
The man sent an email with the video to Serbian authorities around 3 a.m. The Serbian news portal blic.sr published the contents of the letter: “At around 8 p.m. I left the subway station and saw a child running away screaming. First I observed and then started recording. It all happened at a tram stop. There were two women with the child who were talking to each other in Romanian. They called the child by a name, I didn’t understand what, but the girl didn’t react at all.”
The authorities in Serbia then contacted the police in Vienna, who immediately initiated an investigation. “The investigation has been in full swing since Sunday. The State Criminal Police Office is checking whether it is the missing two-year-old. “Various options are being examined and technical aids are also being used,” but details cannot be announced at the moment, says Markus Dittrich, press spokesman for the Vienna Police, to the Kleine Zeitung on Monday afternoon.
In addition to Austria, the police in Romania have now also become active. And Interpol received the data on the so-called on Sunday „Yellow Notices“ published. A worldwide search is now underway for the missing girl.
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What is known so far?
The girl was last seen on Tuesday at 1:45 p.m. in Banjsko Polje near Bor in Serbia. She has since disappeared. Since then, thousands of helpers and police officers with sniffer dogs, drones and helicopters have been searching the area extensively. A seven kilometer long sewer tunnel was also drained and searched. Specialists in searching for missing people after earthquakes have used excavators to extensively dig up the area around the site of the disappearance. Digging at a nearby landfill also began on Monday. All houses in the neighborhood were searched from the attic to the basement. No sign of Danka yet.
The girl lives with her parents and her father’s parents in an apartment in the Serbian city of Bor. She was in Banjsko Polje with her mother and her three-year-old brother on Tuesday. The mother went to a house that belonged to her, her father and her brother. She grew up in the place. Loud kurir.rs She wanted to check how much work and money it would cost to renovate the house. She is expecting her third child and her in-laws’ apartment doesn’t have enough space for five people.
Messages deleted
According to the mother’s statements, they were in the garden behind the locked house. The mother didn’t have a key. After a while, Danka’s brother wanted a glass of water. When the mother returns two minutes later, Danka is gone. About 90 minutes later, she is said to have alerted her husband and then the police about the disappearance, reports Telegraf.rs.
The Serbian press reported that the mother deleted numerous messages, phone calls and photos from her cell phone the day before and on the day of Danka’s disappearance. Bojana Otović Pjanović, who heads the police investigation, also confirmed this to the media: “The deleted data will be restored by our technicians.” However, the police officer made it clear that questioning family members and restoring data on computers and cell phones would not make the mother a suspect. According to Otović Pjanović, in such a case, even the smallest clue must be followed up in order to find the girl as quickly as possible.
But at least officially the only hot lead currently leads to Vienna. However, it is not yet clear whether the girl in the video is actually two-year-old Danka.
2024-04-02 06:38:03
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