Overview
- The instructing judge formally counted the fetus of an eight‑month‑pregnant victim as a life lost, bringing the recorded toll to 229 for identification purposes.
- On June 26 the court asked the Institute of Legal Medicine to expand the autopsy to state the pregnancy exceeded six months, enabling registration and naming.
- The order relies on Law 20/2011, which allows a fetal death after six months to be entered in the Civil Registry without legal effects so parents may assign a name.
- Friday’s ruling also references the Cecopi video disseminated by RTVE and recorded by À Punt, noting “229 lives, one dependent” in describing the case’s gravity.
- The criminal case continues to investigate 228 counts of negligent homicide against two people, as families press for recognition of the unborn baby—whom they call Scarlett—and some groups advocate for broader tallies that include later work-related deaths.