This is clearly what is called a “stupid” accident. Of those that can happen when alcohol permeates too much a body and a mind that has become too euphoric, to the point of crossing the red line. And to risk his life… for a mobile phone that fell over the train tracks.
At the end of April, the mood of a young Yussois is festive. He spends a good part of the evening in downtown Thionville. It’s time to go home on foot. And there, the journey back to his home turns into a nightmare.
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Spotted on surveillance cameras
A posteriori, on the tapes of the video surveillance cameras, the police will see a silhouette which staggers on the Schuman bridge, which it crosses from side to side. At one point, the young man in his twenties dropped his phone in a vacuum, and got it into his head to retrieve it. Bad idea. He then steps over the railing and ends up falling to the ground, a good ten meters below. He will remain there for hours, alone, lying on the rails, before SNCF agents discover him and give the alert.
The victim is in serious condition, polyfractured. His face is unrecognizable. So much so that the police imagine a moment that the boy could have been the victim of an attack. He is immediately taken care of and transferred to Nancy, where it will be a question in particular of the operation of the brain and the private parts.
The young man, a student from the Lyon region who was on an internship in Luxembourg, will keep indelible scars from his time in Moselle.
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