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In Corsica, it is the Gulf of Girolata which will remain as the symbol of the wounds inflicted on the island by the storms which occurred on Thursday August 18th. This small village, accessible only by boat, saw one of its fishermen being swept away by the waves.
For the first time since their evacuation, families are returning to the port of Girolata (Corse-du-Sud), where they took the full force of the storm on their boat, Thursday August 18. The more they advance towards the creek, the more the memories come back, and the emotion with them. “There are boats that were breaking each other”remembers Muriel Barbier, yachtswoman.
And this is what they discover when they arrive: dozens of overturned boats, stranded, there on the rocks or further on the beach. Some boats have half sunk, the hull shredded. All the tourists were rescued, but not a Corsican fisherman. On one of the only beach huts still intact, the face of Jean-Paul Didincx. He was setting his nets and he never came back. The whole village will gather on Monday August 22 for his funeral, one of the pontoons of the port will be renamed in his name.
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