The day after the death of a two and a half year old boy crushed by an SUV on the way to school at around 8:20 a.m. on Friday morning, the prosecutor of Melun said this morning that the driver of the vehicle had been recovered. freedom at the end of his police custody at the Pontault-Combault police station. The investigation continues in preliminary.
It was while reversing that the drama happened
That morning, the 42-year-old man who would reside in Torcy dropped off his children himself at the École des Sapins. Witnesses saw him then hurriedly join his 4X4 parked in front of a garage exit, an unauthorized location about 150 meters from the school. It was by reversing that the drama happened. He did not see the two and a half year old boy who was riding on the sidewalk on his balance bike (bicycle without pedal) followed by his mother and his twin brother just a few meters behind him. This mother came with her two out of school boys to accompany her daughter, the eldest, to school.
Mayor François Bouchard suspends election campaign
The first aid given by a plainclothes firefighter and a passerby posing as a nurse, then the heart massage performed by the firefighters for 45 minutes, could not save the child.
The child's death deeply shocked the parents of the students present and the residents of the neighborhood. Many deplored the anarchic parking of some at the opening and closing hours of this school, for lack of sufficient places. The mayor, François Bouchard (Agir), took note of it. Very moved, he announced that he would suspend his electoral campaign. His municipal police may soon be more severe in the face of poorly parked vehicles.
