Significant aid resources were mobilized on Saturday in the Pyrénées-Orientales to rescue a man, "exhausted, shivering with cold and lost on the heights of Perthus", very close to the border with Spain, indicates the department of high-mountain gendarmerie.
"This young man, who left Perpignan by car, was turned back at checkpoints between France and Spain when he wanted to go to the Jonquera," say the gendarmes. He then decides to leave by a hiking path, hoping to cross the border by the mountain. If the reasons for his journey remain unclear, according to the services of the high mountain gendarmerie platoon, the man did not go to Spain to do food shopping.
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During his trip, the man would have fallen into a stream, in brambles, and would have ended up contacting the fire brigade. The man was able to be located by the emergency services, and helicopter-towed towards the civil security base of Perpignan.
He was also fined 135 euros for non-compliance with confinement.
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