A catamaran worth € 700.000, flown in Croatia, was found on December 14, in the bay of Marigot, by the maritime gendarmerie. On October 31, a boat rental company based in Croatia noted that the tenant of one of his cruising catamarans did not return the boat to the dock on the scheduled date. The company alerts the Croatian police who are asking for international police cooperation. Thanks to a research sheet distributed by Interpol, the national gendarmerie requests the maritime gendarmerie because the sailboat could have the Antilles as its destination. It is therefore not entirely by chance that the coastal patrol officer of the maritime gendarmerie "La Violette", based in Guadeloupe, checks a suspicious sailboat in the bay of Marigot. The catamaran, which has changed name and decoration, has taken a German registration. The skipper, a man in his fifties, is placed in police custody and quickly confesses. The man told investigators that he planned to spend the winter in the West Indies, then set sail for the Pacific where he wanted to start his life again. _AF
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