French skier died in the Alps in 1954 identified thanks to social networks

The Italian police managed to recover the identity of a French skier who died in 1954 at 3,100 meters altitude and has been missing for 64 years, according to AFP. The skier's accessories were found on July 22, 2005 in Val d'Aosta, in northwestern Italy, in the Alps of the Valtournenche region, said Sunday the Italian police in a statement

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At the end of June, the police launched a call on social networks to try to identify the victim, a man of about thirty years, according to the analyzes carried out.

The analysis showed that it was an affluent person, given the good mark of their wooden skis, with a serial number, said Marinella Laporta of the Turin Police Science.

They also concluded that the skier should measure about 1.75 meters, an estimate confirmed by a doctor, and that the death occurred in the spring, according to the light jacket that the victim was wearing.

The glasses, a watch and shirt pieces were always recovered with embroidered initials

The results were shared at the end of June on social networks, the police believing that the skier would not be Italian , the investigation in Italy has not allowed any identification.

a Frenchwoman, Emma Nassem, responded, after having heard information on a French radio, having indicated the name of her uncle, Henri Le Masne, born in 1919 in Alençon (western France) and died on the Matterhorn Val d'Aosta in the Alps) in 1954, a stormy day, according to the declaration

Also the younger brother of the victim, Roger Le Masne, now 94 years old, s 39; is expressed, moved, after the call.

"I am brother of Henri Le Masne, who is probably the skier gone for 64 years," he writes in a letter, adding that his brother, "single, was a very independent character," who was working in public administration at the Ministry of Finance in Paris.

At the time of his disappearance, Roger Le Masne even went to the mountain hotel where his brother had reserved a room for fifteen days, and where he had left personal belongings, as well as 35 000 lire and 5,000 French francs, and where he did not return after skiing on 26 March 1954.

In a photograph made available by the family, the Aoste police identified the same glasses found at 3100 meters altitude.

But to remove all doubt, Roger Le Masne was available for a DNA test, which revealed the presence of a Y chromosome common to several generations of men in the family.

July 24 Henri Joseph Leonce The M asne was finally and formally identified.