The body of the former model found Katoucha
Reportage at the heart of the river brigade who rescued 76 drowned in the Seine in 2007.
The body of Katoucha Niane, the former top models disappeared over the past month and identified Friday after autopsy, was found Thursday by the professional divers from the river brigade in Paris. The mortal remains of the former muse of Yves Saint Laurent in 1990, fell in the water without a witness by a rainy night, was spotted by a lurker up to the deck of the Garigliano, in the sixteenth arrondissement.
This grim discovery is part of everyday life in the river brigade. But this unit discreet that many Parisians have crossed unknowingly, also has other more vital functions. It multiplies and rescue exercises on the Seine. A few days ago, under the gaze of onlookers disconcerted, one of its rubber boats intervened to rescue a man was thrown into the river from the railing on the Saint-Michel. An exercise in integrated training at all times, in the ability to respond quickly and hope to save a victim from certain death in water that nearly 4 ° C at this time of winter.
Sitting behind the cockpit of the boat that leads at high speed along Notre-Dame de Paris, Olivier Dupas is the Second Officer of the river. Last year, the lieutenant and 70 officers of the brigade came out more than 2000 times to intervene. Rescue persons, patrols, controls for navigation, research or assistance with other police departments… his men were also released 76 bodies of waters of the Seine. A figure in the middle: the brigade repêche between 70 and 80 corpses in the river each year. Men accounted for three quarters, but also women and, sometimes,… animals. Like this time where divers had to retrieve the remains of a sheep into the sea. The beast had escaped from his guards, on the side of the Porte de Versailles, in the Salon de l'Agriculture.
Loans from intervention
Back dock Claude-Bernard, Lieutenant Dupas jump on the floating pontoon serving as a basis for the brigade. Lined up near the Jardin des Plantes, three buildings hosting the teams that are working 24 hours out of 24. Loans from the first warning, two rubber boats fast siglés Police coupled with the greater unity of the river, the Ile-de-France. Long 22 metres, pushing tug equipped with a crane and a fire started, it can also intervene on the 140 km of inland waterways under the jurisdiction of the brigade. On the dock, mounted on trailers, three other boats were ready to leave to intervene. "It allows us to go faster when we need to intervene beyond the locks of Suresnes and Port-l'Anglais, in Vitry," explains Lieutenant.
Thursday, on board the Cronos, a prototype inflatable dinghy designed specifically for the river that divers have recovered the body of Katoucha, which was floating on the Seine. It will come less than five kilometres from the Alexandre III bridge where the barge is moored on which the former mannequin lay
The body of Katoucha Niane, the former top models disappeared over the past month and identified Friday after autopsy, was found Thursday by the professional divers from the river brigade in Paris. The mortal remains of the former muse of Yves Saint Laurent in 1990, fell in the water without a witness by a rainy night, was spotted by a lurker up to the deck of the Garigliano, in the sixteenth arrondissement.
This grim discovery is part of everyday life in the river brigade. But this unit discreet that many Parisians have crossed unknowingly, also has other more vital functions. It multiplies and rescue exercises on the Seine. A few days ago, under the gaze of onlookers disconcerted, one of its rubber boats intervened to rescue a man was thrown into the river from the railing on the Saint-Michel. An exercise in integrated training at all times, in the ability to respond quickly and hope to save a victim from certain death in water that nearly 4 ° C at this time of winter.
Sitting behind the cockpit of the boat that leads at high speed along Notre-Dame de Paris, Olivier Dupas is the Second Officer of the river. Last year, the lieutenant and 70 officers of the brigade came out more than 2000 times to intervene. Rescue persons, patrols, controls for navigation, research or assistance with other police departments… his men were also released 76 bodies of waters of the Seine. A figure in the middle: the brigade repêche between 70 and 80 corpses in the river each year. Men accounted for three quarters, but also women and, sometimes,… animals. Like this time where divers had to retrieve the remains of a sheep into the sea. The beast had escaped from his guards, on the side of the Porte de Versailles, in the Salon de l'Agriculture.
Loans from intervention
Back dock Claude-Bernard, Lieutenant Dupas jump on the floating pontoon serving as a basis for the brigade. Lined up near the Jardin des Plantes, three buildings hosting the teams that are working 24 hours out of 24. Loans from the first warning, two rubber boats fast siglés Police coupled with the greater unity of the river, the Ile-de-France. Long 22 metres, pushing tug equipped with a crane and a fire started, it can also intervene on the 140 km of inland waterways under the jurisdiction of the brigade. On the dock, mounted on trailers, three other boats were ready to leave to intervene. "It allows us to go faster when we need to intervene beyond the locks of Suresnes and Port-l'Anglais, in Vitry," explains Lieutenant.
Thursday, on board the Cronos, a prototype inflatable dinghy designed specifically for the river that divers have recovered the body of Katoucha, which was floating on the Seine. It will come less than five kilometres from the Alexandre III bridge where the barge is moored on which the former mannequin lay
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