Overview
- Gendarmerie divers recovered the boy at 9:50 a.m. Sunday after searches resumed at 8 a.m., the Ariège prosecutor confirmed.
- The Foix prosecutor opened a judicial inquiry and requested an autopsy to establish the cause and circumstances of the death.
- The operation mobilized 66 responders, two helicopters and drones, and an advanced command post to coordinate the sweep of the river.
- Specialist teams were sent from the Toulouse area and airlifted from the Francazal base, with gendarmerie divers reinforced from Marseillan and Saint-Cyprien.
- Investigators have not determined what happened, with witnesses pointing to a riverside spot near the Gouffre de Vals, and authorities have arranged legal and psychological support for the family through ASJOA.