Skeletal remains may belong to missing tourist

Early last month, police received a report of skeletal remains found in Kunoy.

The bones were sent to Denmark for DNA analysis, but clues around the remains indicate that the body may belong to a French tourist, who went missing in February.

“We have found clothes, labels on clothes and other items around the remains, which the relatives of missing French tourist Bastien Porée say most likely belong to him,” says a police spokesperson.

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Mr Porée, 31, was last seen boarding Faroese ferry Norröna in Seyðisfjørður, Iceland, on 20 February bound for the Faroes.

Police know that he alighted from the ferry in Tórshavn, because he has withdrawn cash at a cash machine in the Faroes. They also know that he has not departed the country by ship or by plane.

Although the evidence around the skeletal remains points toward Mr Porée, nothing can be firmly established until the DNA results are finalised, according to the police spokesperson.

Translated by prosa.fo