Reported missing after taking a bath, in the middle of the night, while leaving a club, a Gardois man found safe and sound seven hours later

L’hélicoptère de la gendarmerie a survolé la zone. Midi Libre – Illustration

Heavily alcoholic, he was spotted by the municipal police of La Grande-Motte, this Sunday, June 2 around 11 a.m., while he was walking, barefoot, near the two tracks , with the firm intention of returning home to Cailar.

All's well that ends well in this story but it is clear that we avoided a tragedy. This Sunday, June 2, from 8 a.m. in fact, a large gendarmerie system was put in place to search for a man who had disappeared in a worrying manner.

The interested party, living in Le Cailar in the Gard and aged 27, had spent the evening at the nightclub La Dune in La Grande-Motte with a group of friends. Heavily intoxicated, he left the establishment between 3 and 4 in the morning with a friend to take a dip in the Big Blue.

Large search device

Except that although his friend joined the group a few moments later, he no longer gave any sign of life and remained untraceable despite the searches undertaken by his friends. Distraught and still without news of him around 8 a.m., they decided to alert the gendarmes who, after ground investigations, requested reinforcement from the air section.

A helicopter then flew over the area on the sea side, on the beach side and even above the dunes. The nautical brigade was also requisitioned with its shuttle. Just as much as the dog team. In vain. A witness indicated that he had seen the person concerned walking in the direction of Carnon. But again, despite the searches, he remained nowhere to be found.

Returned to his family

It was finally the municipal police officers of La Grande-Motte who found him, in the opposite direction, while he was walking, barefoot, near the dual carriageway towards Gard with the firm intention of returning home to Cailar. He was taken to the station, slightly dehydrated and with a few cuts to the arch of his foot, and handed over to his family who were left bleeding to death.

Overseeing the operations, the duty officer of the Lunel gendarmerie company, relieved to have avoided a nocturnal drowning, reminds us that alcohol consumption must be done with caution. moderation to avoid human tragedies. To meditate.