The macabre discovery was made in the middle of the morning, this Tuesday, August 19, around 9:30 am, near a very busy swimming place of the “Le Vecchju” river, between the two bridges that span RT 20. lifeless body partly submerged by a man in his thirties. He would have presented an important facial trauma at the time of the first observations.
The drama required the intervention of the helicopter of the national gendarmerie and the firefighters, the victim of what resembled, at first glance, to a deadly accident at a fall, would have had no paper on it.
The gendarmerie services then carried out research in the environment close to the drama, in an attempt to find a possible vehicle.
Mystery around identity
The Bastia prosecution has opened An investigation to determine the exact causes of death. It was entrusted to the gendarmerie brigade in Corte. The autopsy planned in Bastia in the coming days should clarify certain gray areas. However, those on the identity of the individual remain. Who is it? The local authorities on the scene have not recognized it. No worrying disappearance was reported on the territory in the days preceding the drama. The latter, according to our information, could have taken place in the morning of Tuesday August 19 or the day before.