A boat accident left one dead and six injured, three of them serious, on Saturday in Saint-Tropez. A resident, who lives very close to the accident, explains having witnessed part of the search operations.
The Gulf of Saint-Tropez keeps no trace of the drama that took place there on the night of Friday October 4 to Saturday October 5. Around 2 a.m., a small boat carrying seven people violently collided with a floating boarding trunk, at a speed of 30 knots, which is equivalent to approximately 55 km/h.
Six people were injured, three of them seriously. The seventh passenger, who was piloting the boat, was missing for the rest of the night. He was finally found dead by rescue teams in the morning.
“The skipper unfortunately sank despite the search,” explains the president of the SNSM of Saint-Tropez.
An open investigation
Speaking to BFM Var, a woman who lives very close to the accident explains having witnessed part of the search operations.
“There was a small boat which was stuck and which looked a little damaged so we took the binoculars, and there we saw, in fact, that there were two other boats which remained around this kind of buoy and looking for something…”, she remembers.
“There were people who got up at night because they heard the helicopter which was indeed looking for someone in the water,” she explains.
The victim, a man, was 37 years old and the injured were between 20 and 52 years old. Maritime gendarmerie, municipal police, national navy, Samu and firefighters “all coordinated to be able to take care of the victims as quickly as possible, dispatch them, accompany them to the various hospitals in the region.”
An investigation was opened by the Draguignan public prosecutor’s office and entrusted to the Issambres gendarmerie nautical brigade.
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