A following ship of the winning ship had shipwrecked on arrival on November 16, leading to the death of two of its occupants.
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The Guadeloupe region was searched Thursday, January 12, learned the France-Presse (AFP) agency of concordant sources, as part of the investigation into the fatal accident on November 16 when arriving at Pointe-à-Pitre de Charles Caudrelier, winner of the Route du Rhum. The search was conducted Thursday afternoon at the Lower Terre region hotel, the capital of Guadeloupe, reported a source within the gendarmerie to AFP.
On November 16, around 5 a.m., a boat following ship winner of the race had shipwrecked, while transporting part of the members of the Route du Rhum organization, causing death of two of its occupants, respectively aged 35 and 38 years old.
A few days later, the prosecutor of the Pointe-à-Pitre Republic announced the opening of a judicial investigation of the heads of “involuntary homicides and involuntary injuries by imprudence and non-compliance with texts in matters of security “.
Joseph Bizard, the director general of OC Sport Pen Duick – the race organizer -, had explained to the press that he had made an agreement with the Guadeloupe region to obtain the provision of boats and “have him” Transmitted a detailed specifications describing precisely the specificities to which we ask that meet twenty-four hours on the boats and their crews “.
Following the call for tenders made by the region, “the list of stars envisaged on the water [had been] subject to the management of the sea to give them access to the various regulated areas” , had also said Joseph Bizard.
The pilot of the shipwrecked boat was also indicted, and the investigation, entrusted to an investigating judge, is still in progress.