While the manhunt continued since Sunday, Marc Floris was probably found dead on Tuesday.
A lifeless body was found, whose physical and sartorial appearance corresponds to the man suspected of having killed with a bullet in the head a young woman found this weekend in a commune of the Var and of having fired on a gendarme who came to question him about it.
He had since been on the run.
In the absence of exchanges of fire, the thesis of the suicide of this man, described as "dangerous" and "armed" by the deputy prosecutor of Draguignan, is naturally privileged.
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Alpes-Maritimes: the hunt for an armed man suspected of feminicide
A flight into the Nice hinterland
Sunday morning July 18, the body of a young woman is found at the entrance to her home by a newspaper delivery man from the daily Var-Matin.
This 32-year-old mother, named Doriane according to Var-Matin, lived in a studio with her daughter in Plan-de-la-Tour in the Gulf of Saint-Tropez.
Suspicion quickly fell on Marc Floris, identified on the surveillance camera recordings of the victim's residence.
"He maintained or had maintained a relationship" with the young woman according to the deputy prosecutor of Draguignan.
Investigators from the Marseille research section (SR) and the Gassin Saint-Tropez research brigade, seized of the investigation, ended up locating the suspect in Gréolières.
He agreed to be auditioned before refusing and taking refuge in his home.
The elite forces of the GIGN of Orange (Vaucluse) then deployed in the village and the man shot a gendarme in the evening.
He had since been on the run in the mountains of the Nice hinterland.
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An important device to find it
A call for witnesses was then launched and widely relayed on social networks.
A large gendarmerie device was quickly deployed to find him.
Nearly 200 gendarmes had been mobilized since Monday, July 19 The hunt was carried out in a large mountainous area described Tuesday as "vast and steep terrain" by Jean Michel Dose, deputy commander of the gendarmerie group of the Alpes-Maritimes.
The mayor of Gréolières, Marc Malfatto, on Tuesday launched an appeal to the fugitive: "Come to your senses and go home".
