"Come to your senses and go home", launches in front of the cameras Marc Malfatto, mayor of Gréolières, this small village in the Alpes-Maritimes where since Sunday, Marc Floris, a 33-year-old man has been actively sought after, suspected of having shot dead a woman near Saint-Tropez. Armed and dangerous, the fugitive opened fire on one of the gendarmes who came to see him on Sunday evening to try to audition him. Since then, this employee of a public works company in the Alpes-Maritimes has fled to Gréolières, the village of his parents where elite units of the gendarmerie search one by one the many caves in the area to flush him out. .
Monday the prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes Bernard Gonzalez had called the suspect of feminicide to "lay down his arms and to give himself up".
This Tuesday morning, it is the turn of the mayor of the town to address the fugitive.
“If Marc could hear us,” says Marc Malfatto, “I would just 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 ”.
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The suspect, who grew up in Gréolières (Alpes-Maritimes), was unknown to justice and seems to have "been taken by a murderous, dramatic madness", said Monday the commander of the gendarmerie group of 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 home of the hamlet of Laval, some 17 km from the town of Gréolières. "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 continue, referring to the caves, tunnels and other bunkers, vestiges of the war with which the region is riddled.