While the floods affect five departments in the north-east of France with orange or even red vigilance in Pas-de-Calais, the floods have caused tragedy in Loire-Atlantique. A 73-year-old man was discovered dead in his partially submerged car on Wednesday afternoon after apparently turning onto a road closed to traffic due to flooding, the Nantes prosecutor’s office announced.
His body was discovered by gendarmerie divers, said the prosecutor, adding: “everything suggests that the person concerned took this route which was nevertheless cut off from traffic”. The Nantes public prosecutor explained that the victim’s partner had raised the alarm early Tuesday afternoon. She was worried about not seeing her come back, even though he had gone to get bread in the town of Saffré, north of Nantes, in the morning.
A partially submerged vehicle
Wednesday afternoon, a witness “reported that the trunk of a vehicle was emerging from a swollen river at the height of a ford,” explained Renaud Gaudel, on WhatsApp. “A new intervention by divers from the Nantes gendarmerie made it possible to discover the lifeless body of the wanted man inside the vehicle,” he concludes.
Floods continue to cause concern in the north of the country, while Pas-de-Calais, still on red flood alert, is facing new floods.