The search was conducted Thursday afternoon at the regional hotel in Basse-Terre, capital of Guadeloupe, said a source within the gendarmerie.
The Guadeloupe Region was raided this Thursday as part of the investigation into the fatal accident that occurred on November 16 when Charles Caudrelier, winner of the Route du Rhum, arrived in Pointe-à-Pitre.
On November 16, around 5 a.m., a follower boat of the winning ship of the race was shipwrecked, while it was transporting some of the members of the Route du Rhum organization, resulting in the death of two of its occupants, aged 35 and 38 respectively.
Judicial information opened
A few days later, the public prosecutor of Pointe-à-Pitre announced the opening of a judicial investigation into the counts of “manslaughter and involuntary injury by recklessness and non-compliance with security texts” .
Joseph Bizard, the general manager of OC Sport Pen Duick (the organizer of the race), had indicated to the press that he had signed an agreement with the Guadeloupe Region to obtain the provision of boats and “have sent him a notebook detailed charges describing precisely the specificities to which we ask that the boats and their crews respond 24 hours a day”.
Following the call for tenders issued by the Region, “the list of speedboats envisaged on the body of water (has been) submitted to the Department of the Sea to give them access to the various regulated areas”, had also specified Joseph Weird.
The pilot of the wrecked boat was also indicted and the investigation, entrusted to an investigating judge, is still ongoing.
