Missing Mexican woman María Fernanda Sánchez found dead in Germany

MEXICO CITY, Aug 5 (Reuters) – German police said on Saturday they found the body of a 24-year-old Mexican woman who disappeared in Berlin in late July and whose case has drawn attention in Mexico.

Authorities said the body of María Fernanda Sánchez, for whom Interpol had issued a yellow wanted notice, was found floating in a canal by a person walking across a bridge in the Adlershof neighborhood of Berlin.

“No third party blame can be assumed,” police said in a statement, but added that “the police investigation is continuing.”

The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Relations reported on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that German authorities have reported the discovery of a deceased woman fitting Sánchez’s description.

Earlier in the week, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he would ask the German president to step up the search for Sánchez, who, according to local media, was a master’s student in Germany.

A few days after the girl’s disappearance, Berlin police said in a statement that there were “indications” that the woman was “in an exceptional psychological situation.”

Reporting by Stefanie Eschenbacher and Adriana Barrera; Written by Alejandro Villegas; Edited by Jonathan Oatis

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