The only sign that was visible at Verdun beach when a 20-year-old man drowned there in June incorrectly stated it was being monitored when it was in fact closed, a Quebec coroner has found.

What’s more, the buoys marking the safe swimming area had been removed for the off-season, coroner Yves Lambert says in a report released Friday concerning the first of three drowning deaths that occurred near the beach this year. The buoys were only due to be reinstalled about five days later for the impending opening of the beach for the summer season.

“Despite (it not being open yet), the beach was accessible to everyone, and several people were already there at the time of the incident,” Lambert writes of June 7, the day the 20-year-old went to the beach to swim with friends around 5 p.m. The beac

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