On May 5, 2022, Emmanuel Roufio, 63, and his friend Mamoun Bennani Rtal, a 34-year-old Moroccan, left the port of Martigues, in the Côte d’Azut, aboard the Sylphe, a small 7-meter sailboat . While they were to go to Menorca, the two experienced navigators have since gone missing.
Sophia, Roufio’s wife, told Free lunch that her husband, a sailing enthusiast, has made several cruises in the company of Mamoun, specifying that the two navigators were preparing to go to Tangier following a stopover in Menorca.
“I spoke to Emmanuel a few minutes following he left. Three hours later, I mightn’t reach him. The following Monday I started to worry, but thought maybe they had found a wild anchorage in Menorca. A few days later, I alerted the Regional Operational Center for Surveillance and Rescue of the Mediterranean (CrossMed). The examination of the satellite data gave a last position of the Sylphe, on May 6 at 2:57 a.m., regarding a hundred kilometers from the coast, off Port-Vendres, ”says Sophia.
According to other navigators, Emmanuel and Mamoun would have “fallen on a tramontana which rose very violently in the night of May 5 to 6, with gusts of 7 or 8 Beaufort, and waves of five meters”. Sophie specifies, however, that the boat is unsinkable and has airbags.
Today, Emmanuel’s wife calls on the maritime prefect to mobilize a plane to “fly over the identified areas once more”.
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