In response to the violent storms affecting Corsica since Tuesday evening, Gérald Darmanin announced Thursday August 17 on Twitter to go there “
this afternoon
”.
“
I give all my support to the Corsicans who faced violent storms, with gusts of wind at more than 200 km / h
”, he adds.
Read alsoBad weather: three dead and several injured in Corsica, Gérald Darmanin goes there
This morning, the toll rose to three dead with the death of a 46-year-old man, a French tourist, in Calvi, victim of a tree falling on his bungalow, we learned from the prefecture of Haute-Corse.
A 23-year-old Italian is in absolute emergency, also the victim of the fall of a tree in the same pine forest of Calvi, we learned from the same source.
In Corse-du-Sud, a 13-year-old girl and a 72-year-old woman also died, and 12 people were injured, including one in absolute emergency, the Corse-du-Sud prefecture had previously indicated.
