The search resumed this Monday morning to try to find the snowshoe hiker who disappeared this Sunday in Isola 2000. Her body was found this Monday, January 22, around 10:30 a.m.
The gendarmes had taken control of the device, a police drone found it
This Monday, it was the gendarmes of the High Mountain Gendarmerie Platoon who took over command of the device. In mountain matters, monitoring is ensured alternately by the CRS Montagne (National Police) and by the gendarmes (PGHM).
This Sunday, the police and gendarmerie were involved in trying to find the missing hiker. Concretely, firefighters, trackers, gendarmes were mobilized this Monday to try to find the missing woman. According to the gendarmerie, around twenty soldiers were engaged. It was a drone deployed by the national police which made it possible, by following his tracks, to find his body.
The civil security helicopter has been in the area since Monday morning. A dog team was to be present on the ground at the end of the morning. The gendarmerie had also mobilized the mountain group. These are gendarmes assigned to the department’s brigades but who have mountain expertise and can be assigned to important operations, provided that they are not assigned to a particular and priority investigation.
The victim was from the Alpes-Maritimes
According to the first elements, the victim was fifty years old. She was staying in a hotel residence in Isola with her family. She was, according to our information, originally from the Alpes-Maritimes. Worried, his relatives contacted the CRS Montagne on Sunday, on call this week.
What we know about the investigation that has just been opened
According to the gendarmerie, the Nice prosecutor’s office opened an investigation this Monday morning into a worrying disappearance.
The victim’s cell phone stopped working late Sunday afternoon. Given the cold, the victim’s mobile could possibly have suffered a breakdown. The temperature dropped to minus ten degrees during the night.
The search was called off Monday at 3:30 a.m. They resumed at 8 a.m. According to the first elements, it had followed a line of ridges in the Pelvos sector.
Faintness ? Fall ? Did she get lost? The hypotheses remain open, the investigation which has been carried out will perhaps allow us to find out more.
