Described as "armed and dangerous", by the assistant prosecutor of Tarascon, the suspect was identified thanks to the surveillance cameras of the residence of the victim, a young mother of 32 years.
Thanks to the telephone analyzes of the victim, the prosecution established that Marc Floris "maintained or had maintained a relationship" with the latter.
The body was discovered in the early hours of the morning by a newspaper delivery man.
"Everyone knows him here"
“A village child from a good family”, as the mayor of Gréolières, Marc Malfatto, described it.
"He grew up in the town and works in a public works company on the Côte d'Azur where he was very popular," he testified to France Bleu, adding that "everyone" knew him in this little one. mountain town.
Since the arrival of the gendarmes on Sunday, the village is completely squared.
"He worked in the construction industry, he worked here with people who make honey, he was normal, a fairly simple person, a little active but normal" confided Raphaël, a resident of the village.
According to him, the suspect "had been with this girl for two or three months" before going to her home and committing the murder.
No criminal record
The man had no criminal record.
A call for witnesses was launched by the Alpes-Maritimes gendarmerie on social networks.
Marc Floris is described in the photo as a brown man of 1.75 m with a slender build and Caucasian type.
🚨 # Call for witnesses
Intervention at # Gréolières.
If you have any information, contact @ Gendarmerie_006 on 04 93 18 43 41. pic.twitter.com/7pJNiC6spU
- Gendarmerie des Alpes-Maritimes (@ Gendarmerie_006) July 19, 2021
The suspect is currently wanted on Monday by some 170 gendarmes and elite forces in the Gréolières sector.
Sunday evening, Marc Floris shot a gendarme who came to question him, but without injuring him, according to the deputy prosecutor.
Mobilized on the ground, the elite units of the GIGN of Orange (Vaucluse) and Paris crisscross a research perimeter "perfectly delimited and well controlled," said the prosecution.
"The relief is steep, we are on a site difficult to access," said Naser Boualam, commander of the departmental gendarmerie grouping at the microphone of BFMTV.
The manhunt continues.
The prefect of the department must hold a press conference at 6 p.m. at the town hall of Gréolières.
