What exactly happened during the night from Thursday to Friday on the banks of the Seine between Melun and Dammarie-les-Lys? This is what the investigators of the local judicial police service of the Melun Val de Seine police station, in charge of investigations into the tragedy which occurred on the quays of the river around 4:30 a.m., will endeavor to clarify. in the morning and which resulted in the death of a man.
It was at this time that the police were alerted by a passerby that a car had ended up in the water. Police officers and firefighters then went to the scene. At the same time, they will very quickly obtain rather worrying information. A woman has just called the firefighters to report that she had received a call from her partner telling her that he had fallen into the Seine. Communication would then have been cut off.
According to him, this 26-year-old resident of Melun left by car following an argument. “The call felt like a form of goodbye,” confides a person close to the case. On site, significant resources were dispatched to try to find the victim. Around thirty firefighters, with their divers, searched the river for a long time. But it was only around 9 a.m. that the car, a Citroën, was finally discovered. With unfortunately the lifeless body of the driver inside.
To enable observations and research, river traffic was disrupted and national and municipal police had to neutralize traffic on the Hippolyte-Rossignol quay in Melun, causing significant traffic jams upstream as far as the penetrant and in the rest of the south -west of Melun throughout the morning.
