2023-06-20 23:28:57
By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted 19 minutes ago
This type of “professional” crossing, “compulsorily supervised” by a boat, is only authorized from England and never from France. Illustrative Photo Panoramic
The identity and age of this swimmer remain unknown at this stage.
And “professional swimmerwho was making a framed Channel crossing from England to France on Tuesday is missing, said the maritime prefecture, announcing the interruption of the search in the evening after several hours of investigations and heavy resources engaged. “Informed“On the day of this disappearance off Cape Gris-Nez, the Gris-Nez operational surveillance and rescue center (CROSS) quickly engaged two French and Belgian military helicopters, a French Navy patrol boat, a coastal patrol boat from the Gendarmerie, and a canoe of lifeguards at sea (SNSM), details in a press release the maritime prefecture of the Channel and the North Sea (Premar).
More “without additional information and the probable sector of disappearance having been fully investigated for several hours, the maritime prefect of the Channel and the North Sea», has on «proposition you CROSS” decided “to interrupt research by directed means“, she specifies. Contacted, the Premar specified that it had passed “more than six hoursbetween the first call to CROSS and the announcement of the end of the search.
Departments of northern France classified in “yellow” vigilance
The identity and age of this swimmer remain unknown at this stage, said a spokeswoman. This type of crossings ofprofessionals», «necessarily framedby a boat, are only allowed from England and never from France, she added. Tuesday, the departments of northern France were classified in vigilance “jauneto thunderstorms by Météo France.
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