The couple's house was washed away by the raging waves of the Vésubie, in the village of Roquebillière -
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Last October, the video made the rounds of the media.
In the middle of a storm Alex, Josette and Léopold Borello, 84 and 88 years old, stuck in their house in Roquebillière, a village in the Alpes-Maritimes, had been swept away by the Vésubie.
In November, weeks after the disappearance of the retirees, a leg was found off Narbonne, in Aude, more than 600 km from the Vésubie valley according to information from France Bleu Azur.
Several weeks of DNA analyzes were necessary to allow the exact identification of the member, who was certified on Wednesday.
Xavier Bonhomme, public prosecutor of Nice, confirms at
20 Minutes
that it is indeed a leg of Josette Borello.
A month after the disaster, the bodies of another couple of nonagenarians, inhabitants of the town of Breil-sur-Roya, had already been found in Italy, where the Roya river flows.
"Regarding the balance sheet Alex, it evolves with the identification of this body part found off Narbonne," said the public prosecutor of Nice to
20 minutes
.
Of the eighteen people missing after the disaster, "ten have been identified and found and eight people have not been found to date."
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The bodies of a couple from Breil-sur-Roya found in Italy after storm Alex
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One month after storm Alex, eleven still missing and speleologists called in to help
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