Part of a building under construction collapsed late Tuesday afternoon in Vincennes (Val-de-Marne), near Paris, causing a slight injury at this stage, told AFP the parquet floor of Créteil. This lightly injured worker is a worker who “jumped out of fear”. He was transported to Saint-Antoine Hospital.
An investigation for “endangering the lives of others” and “unintentional injuries” was opened by the public prosecutor Stéphane Hardouin and entrusted to the judicial police of Val-de-Marne, with the assistance of the management. intelligence from the Paris police headquarters (DRDP).
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The Val-de-Marne prefecture and the police prefecture indicated in a press release that the “work to identify all the workers who were present on site continues” and that “56 workers usually present on the site have have already been identified as safe and sound”. “The operations are being finalized,” the mayor of Vincennes, Charlotte Libert-Albanel, told AFP.
Near a kindergarten
Around 5 p.m., this building under construction, near a kindergarten, a nursery and a leisure center, collapsed in this city bordering Paris, raising concerns. “Collapse of a building in Vincennes. We do not yet know the human toll. Thank you for not hindering the rescue operations, ”tweeted Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, quickly.
According to the Paris firefighters, the prefecture and the town hall, all the pupils as well as the staff of the nursery school have been evacuated and are safe.
Everything started shaking
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A shopkeeper located opposite the building told AFP that she “heard a huge noise, terrible, and suddenly there was a lot of dust”. “I called the firefighters and they came, we see a lot of stretchers passing (empty, she says),” she added, adding that the building in question “had been under construction for about 2 years. “.
Another witness teleworking just next to the scene, “felt a great tremor in the floor of (his) apartment around 4:50 p.m. “. “Everything started shaking, decorative objects fell on the ground and the animals howled,” she said, before seeing “the building collapse on itself as if the interior had been sucked into the ground. A “huge cloud of dust” followed.
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According The Parisianasbestos removal work was in progress in this building.
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