third a body discovered but not yet identified four months after the fires

The fires that hit the Var this summer killed two people, authorities said. This assessment is likely to increase, four months after the events. A third body was discovered, a judicial source told France Televisions on Saturday (November 20th). A neighbor found it, chemin du Canadel, in Cogolin (Var), on September 10, about a hundred meters from a shed. DNA tests are still underway to identify the body.

If the gendarmerie has not formally linked this body to the summer fires, the prosecution clearly evokes a link. The investigation by the gendarmerie made it possible to determine that the fire had started from a motorway rest area and that a cigarette could be at the origin. However, the author of this fire has not yet been identified.

The Massif des Maures and the hinterland of Saint-Tropez (Var) were victims of fires in mid August. The charred bodies of two victims were found in a house hit by flames, in the town of Grimaud, in the heart of the Massif des Maures.