Marc Floris was found dead near his home in Gréolières.
The thirty-something had been 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.
Marc Floris, the fugitive suspected of a feminicide tracked down by elite gendarmes in the village of Gréolières, in the Alpes-Maritimes, was finally found dead near his home.
He allegedly committed suicide with a gun.
The thirty-something had been 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.
End of the hunt in the Alpes-Maritimes: thank you to the gendarmes, as well as to all the state services which have been mobilized in recent hours to search for the fugitive suspected of having killed a woman in the Var.
@ prefet06 @ Gendarmerie
- Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) July 20, 2021
The suspect, who grew up in Gréolières, was unknown to the courts and seems to have "been taken by a murderous, dramatic madness," said on Monday the commander of the Alpes-Maritimes gendarmerie group Nasser Boualam.
Important research
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.