For the second time in a few days, the south-east of France was hit by severe weather on Sunday, which killed six people. "Miracle" for firefighters: the collapse at about 16:15, Monday, December 2, hundreds of tons of rocks on houses of Mées, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, did "a priori" no victim, with the exception of two shocked people.

In question, according to the prefecture of the department, placed Sunday in vigilance orange rain-floods by Météo-France: "the very unfavorable weather conditions of recent days" which made part of the ground unstable.

The access roads were blocked and searches continued in the evening in the village where the Minister of the Interior Christophe Christophe Castaner surrendered briefly.

Three dead rescuers

A few hours earlier, he was close to Marseille, to pay tribute to the three rescuers who died in the night from Sunday to Monday in the fall of their helicopter Dragon 30 while they were going to help victims of bad weather.

A pilot of the civil security, a mechanic operator on board and a firefighter rescue of the Bouches-du-Rhone died in the accident. "It is a test for civil security but they will recover, they will not give up," said the minister.

The helicopter crashed in the hills of the Nerthe Massif, north of Marseille, for a reason still unknown, in a region that had not been placed on red alert by Météo-France. He was to rescue people in the areas most affected by the weather on Sunday, the Var, where three people died, and the Alpes-Maritimes, placed on red alert by Météo-France.

A missing woman

Among the victims in the Var, a shepherd in Saint-Paul-en-Forêt and the owner of a pension for horses in Fréjus who was trying to save his animals. A woman was also found dead in her car. And the record could be even heavier, a 61-year-old woman is still missing Monday evening in the same department.

In about ten days, 12 people died in the south-east of France during two Mediterranean episodes - torrential rains, floods, wind - which succeeded one week apart and generated red alerts from the weather. La France.

"The red alert is up, but leaves behind devastated lands bereaved by the floods, my thoughts to all those who have suffered in recent weeks the bad weather in the South, especially the families and relatives of our fellow citizens who have lost his life, "responded on Twitter the head of state Emmanuel Macron.

With AFP