The septuagenarian was discovered dead in his partially submerged car in Loire-Atlantique on Wednesday afternoon. He would have entered a road cut off to traffic due to flooding, announced the Nantes public prosecutor’s office.
A 73-year-old man was discovered dead in his partially submerged car in Loire-Atlantique on Wednesday afternoon after apparently turning onto a road closed to traffic due to flooding, we learned on Wednesday evening with the Nantes public prosecutor’s office. The alert was given early Tuesday afternoon by the partner of the septuagenarian, the Nantes public prosecutor, Renaud Gaudel, explained on WhatsApp.
She was worried not to see the man come home even though he had gone in the morning to look for bread in the town of Saffré, north of Nantes and southwest of Chateaubriant. Early Wednesday afternoon, a witness “reported that the trunk of a vehicle was emerging from a swollen river at the height of a ford,” detailed the magistrate. “A new intervention by divers from the Nantes gendarmerie made it possible to discover the lifeless body of the wanted man inside the vehicle,” said the prosecutor, adding: “everything suggests that the person concerned was is engaged on this axis which was nevertheless cut off to traffic.