Saint-Raphaël: the bodies of five people found in a car that fell in a lake – franceinfo

The gendarmes discovered, Wednesday, August 18 in the morning, the bodies of five people in their twenties aboard a vehicle that fell in Lake Dramont, in Saint-Raphaël (Var), France Télévisions learned from police source. The hypothesis of an accident is favored by the investigators.

The families of the victims had given the alert Tuesday evening to report their disappearance. Research had been started by the gendarmerie on the shores of the lake, on the indications of a sixth person who had left the group of friends earlier in the evening of Monday. The teams of divers ended the search on Wednesday after the discovery of the corpses.

“We are trying to identify them, the bodies are currently being extracted from the vehicle, said the prosecutor of the Republic of Draguignan, Patrice Camberou. It could be young people who were having a party and whose disappearance was reported by their parents Tuesday evening, but only a formal identification will confirm or not this hypothesis. “

A medico-psychological unit has been created by the Draguignan prosecutor’s office, in conjunction with the municipality of Saint-Raphaël, the sub-prefecture of Var and the Association for assistance to victims of offenses in the Var, to take charge of close to these people while awaiting their formal identification. Two of the young people reported missing were from the department, the other three from the Paris region, according to information from France Televisions.