“It's very difficult to talk about it.
All I can say is that it is a tragedy for this young couple who lost their child, modestly testifies the mayor of Auneuil (Oise), Hans Dekkers.
We don't want to impose ourselves, but if they need anything, we'll be there.
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Thursday evening, a little boy aged two and a half lost his life at the family home, in the hamlet of Grumesnil.
“According to the first elements collected, the parents had just parked their vehicle in the sloping courtyard of their home.
The handbrake would have released and the child, who was playing nearby, would have been fatally struck by the car which would have thus moved back on the sloping ground ”, declares the public prosecutor of Beauvais, Caroline Tharot.
"I hope that she and her husband will find the strength to rebuild themselves"
When the mayor arrived on site, the Samu doctors and firefighters had just put an end to the boy's resuscitation, after an hour of cardiac massage.
A Smur 80 helicopter had been requested so that it could be transported to the Amiens hospital center (Somme).
But the child had already died from his injuries.
"What a tragic fate," sighs the elected official of this town of 2,800 inhabitants, near Beauvais.
The mother is a girl from Auneuil, she grew up here and it is here that she has her family.
I hope she and her husband will find the strength to rebuild themselves.
For now, we prefer that the family can recover a little.
We would like to help, so we are looking for an idea, something that is not intrusive.
It's the first time we've seen this in the village.
We are all very sorry.
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The investigation was entrusted to the Méru gendarmerie brigade. "Investigations are underway to determine the exact circumstances in which the two-and-a-half-year-old child died," said the prosecutor. The car was placed under seal and must be the subject of an expertise to confirm the thesis of the accident.