“The avalanche risk assessment bulletin was four out of five,” said the gendarmes. On Monday, Guillaume Mulliez, a member of the powerful family of entrepreneurs from the North which owns Auchan and Decathlon, among others, died in an avalanche in Modane (Savoie), said those around the family, confirming information from BFM TV.
“Four skiers were going from the Valfréjus resort towards the Vallée Etroite pass (Maurienne) to reach a refuge on the Italian side” when the avalanche occurred around 1 p.m., said the CRS confirming a death in an avalanche, without details on the identity of the victim. “A snowy mountain section left and they got caught in a flow at an altitude of 2,390 meters, continue the gendarmes. One of the four hikers was buried and quickly found and brought out but unfortunately the doctor was unable to revive him”.
The Mulliez family, in eighth position of the largest French fortunes
Aged 61, Guillaume Mulliez was one of the descendants of Louis Mulliez, who was “one of the founders of the ecosystem of the Mulliez Family Association which led to the creation of Auchan”, according to those around him. of the family. He was a distant cousin of Gérard Mulliez, founder of Auchan.
After working for Phildar, the knitting yarn company founded in Roubaix in 1922 by Louis Mulliez, Guillaume Mulliez created Dimo Software, a management software company for companies. With 22 billion euros in 2022, the Mulliez family ranked eighth among the largest French fortunes, according to Challenges.