He was supposed to pick up his wife at the airport but never arrived. The lifeless body of a Belgian national was found Sunday, May 7 near the town of Saint-Paul-de-Varces, south of Grenoble, according to information from the Dauphiné Libéré, confirmed by the prosecutor's office in Le Figaro.
The 55-year-old man was wanted since Saturday night by the gendarmes of the Grenoble company, the Peleton of the high mountain gendarmerie, a crew of the Civil Security and a team of canine from Clermont-Ferrand in the Puy-de-Dôme.
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Significant resources were deployed shortly after the announcement of the disappearance of the deceased by his wife in the late afternoon. The latter was waiting for her husband at Geneva airport in Switzerland. The couple was staying in Villard-de-Lans, in their second home. Worried by his absence and the impossibility of reaching him, the woman contacted their neighbors in the Vercors, who found that the husband's car was still parked in front of their house, but that he was not there.
Found by a drone
The gendarmes quickly conducted investigations and traced the location of his phone. After fruitless searches on Saturday night, they resumed early Sunday morning. It was finally a drone that located the body, around 9:30 am, lying above a cliff in the Cornafion sector, near the town of Saint-Paul-de-Varces. The victim had died when emergency services arrived at the scene.
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An accidental vertiginous fall while hiking is at the origin of the death of the man, informs the prosecutor to the Figaro. He would have gone hiking alone around his residence. His body was taken care of and handed over to funeral professionals.
