A septuagenarian missing since Saturday morning in the Var, in full episode of heavy rain, was found dead Tuesday near his home, we learned from the gendarmerie. The 77-year-old man, who had left his home in Saint-Antonin-du-Var in the middle of the night to check the damage caused by the rains, was found by a neighbor, 600 meters from his home, "in a forest area ", added the gendarmerie, confirming information from France Bleu Var.
Criminal investigation technicians from the gendarmerie were dispatched to investigate the circumstances of the death. Since his disappearance was reported Saturday morning, and while torrential rains were falling across the region, research had been conducted in vain to try to find him.
Two people remain missing
Four other people lost their lives this weekend in bad weather on the Côte d'Azur: three of them, hostages of their submerged vehicles, and a fourth drowned when the firefighter who had rescued her capsized .
Two people remain missing in the area. A 44-year-old fisherman has not given any sign of life since Saturday in Cassis (Bouches-du-Rhône), when he went fishing on rocks where he used to go to a steep swept area. high waves making the rock slippery. The department had been placed in vigilance orange rain, floods and flood risk. Tuesday morning, divers of the gendarmerie had to probe the rocks near which the man could have disappeared, specified the gendarmerie.
Another man is also missing in the Var: he had taken his car between Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume and Seillons-Source-d'Argens Saturday. A call to witness was launched by the Var gendarmerie.