We now know the causes of the death of the fifties found in the Lalinde canal on March 19. The public prosecutor of Bergerac Sylvie Guedes confirms this Thursday morning that it is “of accidental death”. The autopsy carried out by the medico-legal institute of Bordeaux indicates that the man “ _had a heart attack and that he did not die from drowning”_.
This was already the hypothesis adopted by the investigators when the body was discovered. The 53-year-old victim may have lost his balance as he was near the edge of the canal. As he was alone, no one was able to help him. At the time of the discovery of the body, the Lalinde firefighters and the team specializing in the aquatic environment had intervened quickly, but the man was no longer breathing and the emergency services had not succeeded in resuscitating him.
The body of this British national had been discovered in the water at the beginning of the afternoon. His two dogs wandering nearby had caught the attention of a walker who had given the alert. The 50-year-old lived in the town of Lalinde with his partner.