A local hunter stumbled upon it. Human remains, one foot still in his shoe, were discovered on Sunday in an undergrowth of Tende, in the Roya valley (Alpes-Maritimes), triggering the opening of an investigation, said the Nice prosecutor’s office. , confirming information from Nice morning.
Found near a forest track, the bones were submitted to the expertise of criminal investigation technicians. And a DNA search was launched.
Investigators exclude a priori » the track of one of the victims of the storm Alex, which had ravaged the sector at the beginning of October 2020, killing eighteen people. Eight bodies had never been found. It is on the other hand “possible that it is a man who disappeared several years ago”, explained to 20 minutes the public prosecutor of Nice Xavier Bonhomme, without further details at this stage.