A person set himself on fire, this Thursday shortly before 6 p.m., in the Pigalle station located in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, according to our information.
A user intervened with a fire extinguisher, according to a police source.
The person allegedly caught fire on one of the station's platforms, according to shocked witnesses present on the spot.
"I saw people shocked, prostrate on the ground"
“There was like a mini-explosion, I saw the man on fire on the platform while I was in the train.
We were evacuated urgently, I saw shocked people, prostrate on the ground.
It smelled like burnt… When I left, I saw the man on the ground… ”, indicates to the Parisian Bernard * present in the station at the time of the facts.
“It was atrocious,” reports John-Pierre, who was in a train arriving at Pigalle at the exact moment of the tragedy.
"Everyone started screaming, I turned around and saw someone in a big flame on the platform."
Despite everything, the metro stopped.
“Everyone started screaming and coming down,” he continues.
Some people were in tears, it was very shocking.
Then the security asked us to leave the station, and on leaving everyone saw the corpse ”
No other injured have been identified for the time being.
The Abbesse and Pigalle metro stations were closed to the public, before resuming 40 minutes later, said the RATP service.
(* The first name has been changed)
