Chamoson
Some 70 km from her disappearance in Chamoson (VS), the discovery of the girl’s body in Cully (VD) is surprising. But in the past, another made the trip from Haut-Valais …
On Sunday August 11, the Losentse de Chamoson carried an impressive torrent of mud. Two people were missing, taken in their car. The girl’s body followed the natural course of the Rhône to Lake Geneva. For the spokesperson for the cantonal police, Stève Léger (inset), “finding it is a duty towards families”.
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A year later, the body of the girl who disappeared in Chamoson on August 11, 2019 was discovered in Lake Geneva at Cully, nearly 70 kilometers upstream. In Valais, this outcome does not fail to raise questions: how could it have gone so far? The body notably passed the Evionnaz dam, which often holds the bodies. But not always depending on its use.
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60 missing in the Rhône since 1900
For the Valais cantonal police: “This case of Chamoson is not exceptional, according to his spokesperson Stève Léger. We have already been confronted with the discovery of a body in the lake after its disappearance in the Rhône in central Valais and also from Upper Valais ”. However, it is difficult to have precise figures on the number of people missing and found, where and after how long: “On our list of the missing kept since the beginning of 1900, specifies the same, approximately 60 people could have disappeared. in the Rhône or in Lake Geneva. By definition, the place of disappearance is not always known with certainty, but can be just assumed. The figures should therefore be taken with caution. “
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“A mourning without a body remains a complicated mourning”
The cantonal police will continue to hope that we find the last body of this tragedy: “The cantonal police officers live densely the emotions experienced by families during the disappearance of their loved ones, observes Stève Léger. Achieving their father, mother, son and daughter back to them is of obvious and capital importance for the cantonal police. Mourning without a body remains complicated mourning. “
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This situation also has legal implications for the status of the person. “The death of a person whose body has not been found is considered established, when that person has disappeared under circumstances such that his death must be taken for granted.” explains the spokesperson
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For people “disappeared in danger of death or of whom we have not heard from for a long time”, the heirs can seize, after one year, a judge so that he makes a “declaration of absence”.
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