We start the year with a beautiful story …. Christmas. On December 25, a depressed 50-year-old was rescued of certain death by the soldiers of the gendarmerie brigade of Roquemaure / Rochefort du Gard. Gendarmes called for a disturbing disappearance which will lead them to intervene at the last minute to save a fifty-something close to drowning in the Rhône.
Very fast localization of the potential victim
Saved from the waters by gendarmes who set up an important device in record time. A first team that goes into contact with the family of the desperate. Proximity survey to detect habits of this inhabitant of Pujaut- for only a few days. In the age of technology, field research retains its precious utility. Less than an hour later, he located him in Sauveterre on the banks of the Rhône. He has just jumped into the water in a trance, he is drifting.
3 of the eight gendarmes, including the commander, jump into the water. Very lucky, if it is cold, the current is not important and the outside temperature relatively mild. Brought back to the shore, the firefighters take over. Dedicated gendarmes, precise in their research and satisfied of collective work which enabled man to escape a fatal outcome. He was released from Avignon hospital and the family explains that he is doing better.
A rescue the fruit of collective success
A first team assigned to field intelligence locates the missing person. The device is ramping up, 8 men in total are deployed about ten kilometers from the home of the disappeared, on the banks of the Rhône in the Sauveterre sector. It was there that he was saved by 3 gendarmes who were able to bring him back to the shore. “A collective success “.