• Marc Floris, 33, is suspected of killing a 32-year-old woman near Saint-Tropez.

  • He is entrenched in Gréolières, in the Alpes-Maritimes and could hide in one of the 90 caves of the security perimeter installed by the gendarmerie.

The man is still nowhere to be found.

Marc Floris, 33, suspected of a feminicide near Saint-Tropez (Var), has been prosecuted since Sunday.

In the heart of a "vast and steep" terrain, in Gréolières (Alpes-Maritimes), the elite units of the gendarmerie searched one by one the many caves in the area on Tuesday to try to find it.

"There are a lot of cavities and caves to recognize, but we will do them all," insisted Jean-Michel Doose, deputy commander of the gendarmerie group of the Alpes-Maritimes Tuesday morning at the town hall of Gréolières, acknowledging that the perimeter of the research, "of several square kilometers", covered "a territory particularly difficult to access, with rocky plumbs and scrubland".

During the night of Monday to Tuesday the searches were maintained, in particular with dogs and aerial means equipped with thermal cameras.

For this research, significant resources were deployed: units from the GIGN in Orange (Vaucluse) and Paris, air resources, in particular helicopters, in order to drop men as close as possible to the sites to be crisscrossed, and dog teams. , including Saint-Hubert, a breed with a particularly developed smell.

Nearly 90 caves to explore

In total, nearly 90 caves could hide Marc Floris, this thirty-something wanted since Sunday, after the discovery at dawn of the body of a 32-year-old woman, shot dead, in front of the gate of his residence in Plan-de- La-Tour, above the Gulf of Saint-Tropez.

Identified by the recordings of the CCTV cameras of the residence and the technical analysis of the victim's phone, this employee of a public works company in the Alpes-Maritimes had fled to Gréolières, the village of his parents.

According to Guy Bouchet, deputy prosecutor of Draguignan (Var), Monday, Marc Floris "maintained or had maintained a relationship" with the young woman, "over a short period of time".

"Armed and dangerous", still according to Guy Bouchet, the fugitive had fired on one of the gendarmes who came to Gréolières on Sunday evening to try to audition him.

"Come home, your parents are desperate"

After Bernard Gonzalez, the prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes, who had called on Monday evening to “lay down his arms” and “surrender”, it was the mayor of the town who in turn tried to challenge the young person on Tuesday. man.

"If Marc could hear us, Marc Malfatto insisted, I would simply say to him:" Come home, your parents are desperate. "

Perhaps we should regain our senses and face the sometimes harsh realities of life.

We must face them with courage and serenity.

Come to your senses and go home.

"

The suspect, who grew up in Gréolières, was unknown to justice and seems to have "been taken by a murderous, dramatic madness," said Monday the commander of the gendarmerie group of the Alpes-Maritimes, Nasser Boualam.

Son of a hunter, the fugitive is undoubtedly in his element in this wild territory where he spent his childhood, in the family house of the hamlet of Laval, some six to seven kilometers from the town of Gréolières, at an altitude of 1,100 m. .

"He knows the area very well, that's why I wish them good luck to the gendarmes," explained a couple from the village on Monday.

"Even with a dog squad, being a hunter, he has enough to cover his tracks," they said, referring to the caves, tunnels, bunkers and other vestiges of the war with which the region is riddled.

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