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British TV star doctor Michael Mosley, here on the ITV set in November 2017, was found dead on the Greek island of Symi where he disappeared on Thursday.
INTERNATIONAL – This is the end of four days of intense research. The doctor known from British television Michael Mosley was found dead on the Greek island of Symi in the Aegean Sea where he had disappeared on Thursday, a police spokesperson announced to AFP this Sunday June 9.
“People on a boat saw a body near a rocky coast”Petros Vassilakis, the police chief of the South Aegean region, told AFP, before indicating that it was indeed Michael Mosley.
A crew from Greek public broadcaster ERT was filming the area where the 67-year-old man, known for his innovative diet advice, disappeared when they spotted a body. “Looking at the equipment he had taken, (the cameraman) saw that something strange was near the fence, 50 m from the sea”told an ERT journalist on the air. “We discovered (…) that it was indeed this man (…) He was in a lying position (on his back)”specified this journalist, Aristides Miaoulis.
“I wish we had better news (for the family)”he testified, moved, at the microphone of Sky News, as you can see below.
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“I am devastated to have lost Michael, my wonderful, funny, kind and brilliant husband, wrote his wife Clare Bailey in a statement cited by the BBC. We have been incredibly lucky in our lives together. We loved each other very much and were so happy together. »
Michael Mosley went for a walk alone
The Greek authorities announced on Friday that they were intensifying their searches, for the third day in a row, in an attempt to find this 67-year-old doctor, known for his appearances on TV shows. The One Show And This Morningalso a documentary director.
Dr Saleyha Ahsan, co-presenter of Michael Mosley on the BBC show Trust Me I’m A Doctorsaid his colleague had a “passion for explaining science to a wider audience”. “Make science accessible to everyone, not just to a scientific niche, but to everyone”this doctor told BBC News.
His wife had informed the police of the disappearance of Michael Mosley, who had gone for a walk alone. On Thursday morning, local police officially announced his disappearance and firefighters sent a helicopter to help with the search.
The area where the presenter disappeared is considered “difficult because it is quite rocky”the mayor of Symi emphasized on Thursday, according to the Greek daily Kathimerini.
The nearby island of Rhodes, opposite the Turkish coast, is also plagued by extreme heat, like many Greek regions.
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