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Hundreds have evacuated their homes and emergency services have carried out over 2,000 interventions Some areas of southeastern France recorded almost 400mm of rain between 21 and 24 November flooding homes and prompting dozens of high water rescues and evacuations Thousands of homes were left without electricity and road and train transport was severely disrupted France’s Ministry of Interior said that emergency services had carried out more then 2,300 interventions in Var and Alpes-Maritimes departments The government of Var department said that 625 people had evacuated their homes and were staying in 14 emergency accommodation centres The government of Var department reported flood-related fatalities in the villages of Le Muy and Cabasse One person is still reported missing in Saint-Antonin-du-Var Local media reported that 2 people died after their vehicle was trapped in flood water near the town of Tanneron on 24 November The town of Roquebrune-sur-Argens in Var Department was particularly badly affected and only accessible by boat or helicopter Levels of the Argens river in the town jumped from around 3 metres to 7.12 metres on 23 November the second highest level on record behind the June 2010 record of 7.7 metres The Endre river at Le Muy reached record levels of 2.88 metres on 23 November beating the previous high of 2.72 metres set in November 2011 Dans la zone Sud, nos sapeurs-pompiers et forces de Sécurité civile ont réalisé près de 2300 interventions et procédé à plus de 170 hélitreuillages.Sans leur exceptionnelle mobilisation, le bilan aurait été plus lourd encore.Nous leur en sommes profondément reconnaissants. pic.twitter.com/1sNTBlYr0u — Christophe Castaner (@CCastaner) November 24, 2019 — Sécurité Civile Fr (@SecCivileFrance) November 24, 2019 — Sapeurs Pompiers VAR (@SDIS83) November 24, 2019 Cookies | Privacy | Contacts © Copyright 2025 FloodList The Local Europe ABVästmannagatan 43113 25 StockholmSweden Firefighters were called out at least 10 times to help people trapped in their homes and cars by rising waters in the Var region that includes the town that where Brigitte Bardot and other celebrities live normally dominated by the fashion-conscious on a Saturday night Several restaurant managers and shop owners were spotted trying to push the water out of their businesses with mops The Saint Tropez region and Var department were among the worst hit by the rains shopkeeper Patrick Gaillard set up a temporary dyke to protect his business "It's quite onerous but it's necessary so we don't have water in the shop," he told AFP One father and his 11-year-old daughter had to be airlifted by helicopter from their mobile home in nearby Roquebrune-sur-Argens Two other people were rescued from the roof of their car one hunter had to be rescued with his five dogs on a small on a small island in the Gardon river almost 1,900 people were taken to safety as a precaution Some roads were closed and rail services were suspended for Saturday and Sunday on part of the line between Alpes-Maritimes and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and on a regional line linking Gard and Lozere where a train derailed on Friday evening following a landslide Gard and Var were hit by heavy rains that affected a large part of central-eastern France causing exceptional flooding in Ardèche and the Rhône These episodes are expected to be more frequent and intense due to global warming Stormy weather was expected to continue on Sunday but storms should be "less intense" with "less significant" rainfall of some 40 to 60 millimetres as they move towards the department of Alpes-Maritimes forecaster Meteo France said in its 10pm bulletin Please log in here to leave a comment. 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Will Julien Jousse follow in the wheel tracks of Stephane Sarrazin he will race the WEC 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps (tickets here) the second round of the FIA World Endurance Championship​​ along with Emmanuel Collard and Jean-Christophe Boullion Cécile Bonardel (quotes from driver's website) (left) pictured here with his brother Maxime Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed During the decade she has spent working at her family’s winery in Provence Marine Chauvier has taken everything that the elements have thrown at her from hail and frost to drought and disease But the blow that struck this summer was entirely man-made As they were gathering in this year’s harvest under the blazing August sun along with the almost 500 other producers of Côtes de Provence rosé received an unexpected and alarming message from the body that controls their industry: the amount of wine they could sell was being cut by almost 10 per cent who runs the Domaine de Marchandise winery with her brother-in-law that means 30,000 fewer bottles and at least Cars are seen on a flooded street after heavy rain fall in Roquebrune-sur-Argens France -  - Two people were missing and hundreds of homes flooded Saturday as heavy rains hit the Cote d'Azur in southern France disrupting air and rail transport and leading to hundreds of evacuations a woman was also missing after a lifeboat capsized with three crew members and three other people aboard While five of them reached safety she could not be found Two other people were rushed to hospital as storms hit the area overnight were placed on "red alert" warnings by the meteorological office and official warnings were also issued about high waves off the coast A total of 1,600 members of the emergency services were mobilised to deal with the emergency Numerous roads were cut off and rail traffic was halted from the Cote d'Azur to the Italian border until at least Sunday Flights from Nice international airport were suspended during the day and due to resume late Saturday alert sirens sounded to urge people to stay indoors Most residents complied and the streets were almost deserted by late afternoon on Saturday Four thousand homes were left without electricity due to the bad weather and flooding hundreds of residents were evacuated as a preventative measure Shelter was provided in municipal buildings A 39-year-old woman was seriously injured after being carried along by a wave A 78-year-old man was also hospitalised with hypothermia after being trapped by a tree trunk brought down by a landslide The French authorities warned late Saturday that with more heavy rain on the way and rivers in the area already overflowing their banks that the flooding will continue to worsen" They urged local residents to stay indoors be careful near water courses and not to use their vehicles unless strictly necessary A boat turned over in a flood-affected area of the French southeastern town of Roquebrune-sur-Argens Heavy rain and flooding hit southern France at the weekend seeing hundreds of people evacuated and three killed in flood-related accidents more than 1,600 people were evacuated or assisted by authorities and about 3,900 homes were without electricity please register for free or log in to your account police dug up the back garden of the Dupont de Ligonnès family and made a shocking discovery Agnès Dupont de Ligonnès and her four children had been shot and their bodies buried under the back patio of their own home the Dupont de Ligonnès family was a regular middle-class family popular children lived normal lives in the peaceful Xavier kept up the expected aristocratic appearances another young member of the Versailles bourgeois he found Agnès had become pregnant by another man In an act that defied conservative social norms Xavier and Agnès didn't stay in Versailles They spent the 1990s travelling around France as their family continued to grow Although the process lost the family a lot of money they eventually settled down to what appeared to be a happy They relied mostly on money inherited from Agnès' family the count Bernard-Hubert Dupont de Ligonnès Xavier went through the belongings left in his apartment his father had also suffered financial troubles at the end of his life and he had been ill and living near poverty before he died The only thing Xavier inherited from his father was a .22 long rifle despite having never before shown any interest in guns Xavier obtained his gun license and began frequenting a shooting range just outside Nantes before closing all the bank accounts in the Dupont de Ligonnès name The lease on the family home had recently been terminated stating: "Please return all mail to sender Thomas, the second oldest child, had returned to school on Monday, but had been called back home by his father, who told him there had been a family emergency. He arrived back at the family home that evening, and was reportedly seen having dinner alone with his father at a restaurant on Monday, April 4th, according to Le Figaro and his last communication was a text sent to a friend on Tuesday evening Although there is some dispute over the last known sighting of Agnès Dupont de Ligonnès neighbors recalled with certainty seeing her on April 5th While some neighbors claimed to have seen her outside walking her dog on the evening of April 7th most investigators place her death to have occurred around April 5th On April 11th, just a few days after the Dupont de Ligonnès family's last sightings, Xavier and Agnès' relatives received a typed letter, supposedly from Xavier. However, it was unsigned and contained few grammatical errors, which was unlike him, per RFI Xavier explained that he had been a covert agent secretly working as a member of the United States' Drug Enforcement Administration Xavier claimed the family was being moved to America to be placed in the Federal Witness Protection program They would not be able to remain in contact and his children would be unable to access any social media for an indeterminate amount of time The letter also left behind detailed instructions for dealing with the remainder of the family's possessions including which belongings were to be taken to the dump Xavier also specified that his car had been given to a family friend a detail that proved to be untrue when the police later discovered the same car abandoned outside a hotel room in southeast France perhaps the most incriminating aspect came around the middle of the letter where Xavier told them to stay away from the rubble on the back terrace The letter also encouraged family members to keep up the story Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès had spread that the family had relocated to Australia for business saying it was the "official version" of the story neighbors of the Dupont de Ligonnès family noticed that the house was shuttered and there had been no movement in and out of the house for the past few days a neighbor reported her suspicions to the police they found nothing that indicated anything was amiss with the family While some beds had been stripped of linens and some photographs were missing police believed this meant the family had packed up and left voluntarily But Agnès' family members were not so sure. After receiving the strange letters insisting the family had emigrated to the United States, they became even more suspicious, insisting there was no way she would have packed up the family and left without any words of farewell. They continued to insist something was strange about the family's disappearance and police returned to investigate the home According to Le Parisien during the police's final visit to 55 boulevard Robert-Schuman the bodies of Agnes and the four Dupont de Ligonnès children were finally found and another where Thomas was buried separately were discovered under the patio in the back garden almost a full three weeks had passed since Agnès and three of the children had last been seen The autopsy revealed all the children had been drugged with sleeping pills and then shot twice in the back of the head with a .22 long rifle, per The Local but there were no traces of drugs in her system investigators noted that she used a sleep apnea machine which had been stopped sometime in the middle of the night so she was most likely also executed in her sleep no traces of blood had been found anywhere in the house who had last been heard barking on the night of Tuesday But there was one body missing: that of the family patriarch Xavier immediately became the police's number one suspect an international arrest warrant was issued for Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès he'd had a three-week head start on the police In contrast to the painstaking and deliberate efforts that had been taken to clean up the crime scene Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès had taken no pains to conceal his escape Nothing about his travels indicated that he was planning to go on the run and investigators speculated that instead he intended to kill himself after the end of his trip Police were easily able to track Xavier's last moves He had stayed in his home in Nantes for a full week after the murders Neighbors reported seeing him go into and out of the house Xavier made some posts online and sent emails to his family members from his home computer Xavier continued travelling southeast the next day spending the night of April 13th at a hotel in La Seyne-sur-Mer and disappeared carrying only a backpack on his back Roquebrune-sur-Argens was surrounded by cliffs and other crevices where it would be easy for a body to go undetected Because nothing about Xavier's behavior indicated he was trying to hide from police or go on the run investigators believed that Xavier's plan had been to take one last trip to southern France and then commit suicide somewhere in the surrounding region police began searching the Roquebrune-sur-Argens and the surrounding area for Xavier's body leading investigators to believe that the whole trip might have been intended to throw police off his trail investigators were never able to track the letter to its source and remain skeptical that it actually came from the real Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès In more recent years, there have been false sightings of Xavier. In 2018, police received a tip that Xavier was hiding out in a monastery in Roquebrune-sur-Argens, masquerading as a monk, according to O Magazine. However a police raid of the monastery failed to turn up the suspect