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Alpes-Maritimes: the hunt continues to find Marc Floris, the fugitive suspected of feminicide

2021-07-20T07:52:29.461Z


Nearly 200 gendarmes and elite forces are still mobilized to find the 33-year-old man suspected of feminicide near Saint-Trope


The hunt continues in the Alpes-Maritimes.

Nearly 200 gendarmes and elite forces are still mobilized to find Marc Floris, a fugitive suspected of feminicide near Saint-Tropez, who was called to surrender.

"If I have a message to give and if I am listened to, it is that at some point it is necessary to know how to lay down your arms, to surrender", declared the prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes on Monday at a conference of hurry.

Since Sunday, research has been carried out in Gréolières, a small mountain village, in a steep territory where there are about 90 caves, to find this 33-year-old man, previously employed without history in a public works company on the Riviera.

Significant resources are still being mobilized, ”Jean-Michel Doose, deputy commander of the department's gendarmerie, said on Tuesday.

The latter also mentioned the difficulty of research in an area of ​​"several square kilometers with rocky plumbs, scrubland".

Read also Alpes-Maritimes: what we know about Marc Floris, the fugitive suspected of feminicide

Marc Floris is suspected of having killed in Plan-de-La-Tour, a town above the Gulf of Saint-Tropez (Var), a 32-year-old woman with whom he "maintained or had maintained over a short period of time. a relation ”then to have fired on a gendarme who came to interview him in Gréolières on Sunday, indicated the deputy prosecutor of Draguignan Guy Bouchet.

A "murderous, dramatic stroke of madness"

The suspect, who grew up in Gréolières, was unknown to the courts and seems to have "been taken by a murderous, dramatic madness," said the commander of the gendarmerie group of the Alpes-Maritimes Nasser Boualam.

Anyone with information to locate this man of "1m75, slender build, Caucasian type, brown hair", must come forward "immediately", according to the call for witnesses launched by the gendarmerie.

On the run since Sunday, after he shot a gendarme who came to question him, but without injuring him, this thirty-something is hidden somewhere in the hamlet of Laval, "six or seven kilometers from the center of the village" of Gréolières , where his parents live, explained the mayor, Marc Malfatto.

"Residents of the seven houses (in this hamlet, editor's note) were advised not to go out," he added, adding that the situation was "normal" in the rest of the village.

"In Gréolières, we can move around," confirmed an employee of the village paragliding school, Olivier Martinez.

"But we cannot use the landing site because there is a gendarmerie helicopter, two military helicopters and gendarme trucks."

"I wish them good luck to the gendarmes"

The inhabitants were in shock on Monday, far from imagining that one of the children of the village could thus have drifted.

A young couple, Pierre and Virginie, think that the man will be difficult to find if he really wants to hide: “Laval is the mountain.

Here we are at 840 m, over there it is 1,100 m.

He is the son of a hunter and when he was very young he was introduced to hunting with people from the village.

He knows the area very well and that's why I wish them good luck to the gendarmes, there are caves, tunnels, vestiges of the war too.

So if we do not know, even with a dog team, being a hunter, he has enough to cover his tracks ”.

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Alpes-Maritimes: the hunt for an armed man suspected of feminicide

The use of the recordings of the CCTV system of the residence where the 32-year-old woman lived and the analysis of the victim's mobile phone enabled the suspect to be identified, on the run to the Alpes-Maritimes and his family home in Gréolières, according to the prosecutor.

Source: leparis

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