A Palestinian refugee who had been missing for over one year has been pronounced dead by the German authorities, his family has reported.
German police on Sunday told a relative of the Palestinian refugee Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim, born in 1974, that the latter drowned at sea.
Ahmed’s relative Tareq Abu Omar said the victim was identified by the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol). His body is in Croatia.
Speaking with the Action Group for Palestinians of Syria, Tareq Abu Omar said the Croatian authorities found Ahmed’s body on November 30, 2018, in Dobra Lake, one day after he drowned. His name and personal details could not be identified at the time.
Ahmed, a former resident of Shabaa town, in Rif Dimashq, disappeared on November 29, 2018 as he tried to cross the Dobra river with four other people in an attempt to reach Slovenia, on way to Italy.
Ahmed fled war-torn Syria to AlBadawi refugee camp, in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, before he decided to seek shelter in a European destination.