The episode, which occurred on Thursday, November 12, is part of a series of landslides linked to severe weather. On the Côte d'Azur, Storm Charles is causing major damage.
Thirty tonnes of rock break away from a cliff in La Turbie, in the Alpes-Maritimes, under the effect of heavy rain from Storm Charles, according to firefighters. Emergency evacuations are being carried out on site.
Rainfall in recent hours is weakening the rock faces. According to firefighters, the mass that breaks away in La Turbie amounts to 30 tonnes of rock.
Blocks leave the cliff and continue their path into the garden of a villa. They stop only a few centimeters from the wall of the house.
Two measures follow one another to keep the public away. A first order bans access to the footpath that runs alongside the site.
A danger order then prevents people from returning to their properties. The restriction remains in force until the necessary studies have established that the cliff is secure.
Five kilometers farther on, the municipality of Èze, also in the Alpes-Maritimes, is affected by the same unsettled weather system.
Elsewhere along the coast, residents film, stunned, the state of their municipality after Storm Charles passed through.
In La Turbie, access remains closed pending these checks. The emergency evacuations and the orders reflect a risk that the studies have not yet lifted.