The Frenchman Jean-Jacques Savin, 75, who was trying to row across the Atlantic, is still missing off the Azores, the Portuguese navy announced on Sunday, while his entourage had indicated the day before that his body had been "
found lifeless
" inside his boat.
"
The search ended yesterday at the end of the day (Saturday) without it being possible to find the victim
," the Portuguese navy said in a statement.
Asked by AFP, a spokeswoman for the navy explained that during the rescue operation the rescuers had "
strong reasons to believe that a body could be inside
" the cabin. of the canoe L'Audacieux.
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