A little girl under the age of two was seriously injured on Saturday by falling out of the window of the family apartment in Goussainville.
The child fell from the second floor of a small three-storey building, located rue Jean-Moulin.
The accident happened in the afternoon, shortly after 4 p.m.
The emergency services were alerted when the child was picked up by his relatives and brought back to the apartment.
After the first aid provided on the spot, the medical team of the pediatric Smur transported the little victim to the Necker hospital, in Paris, under motorized escort.
She would be mounted on a table near the opening
A judicial police officer from the Gonesse police station went to the scene to determine the precise circumstances of the accident.
According to the first elements collected in particular after a witness, the little girl would have leaned out of the window after having probably climbed on a table which was just near the opening.
The state of health of the little girl this Sunday was not known.
In France, about 250 falls of children under 15 years old would occur each year, about thirty being killed.
In 2013, the health watch institute, now Public Health France, conducted a survey on the defenestration of children in Île-de-France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and in collaboration with the Necker Children's Hospital. , in Île-de-France, in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and in Nord-Pas-de-Calais.
Between March 15 and October 15, 76 defenestrations of children under fifteen were recorded.
Nine of the children had died, 8 had sequelae one month after the accident, including three severe sequelae.
According to the study carried out, these accidental falls from a window or balcony particularly affect children under the age of six (62%) and boys (70%).
Most of these falls occur in spring or summer (25% in July) and despite the presence of an adult in 4 out of 5 cases, but in another room.
Prevention campaigns are regularly launched
According to a previous study conducted in Île-de-France, in 2005, a piece of furniture was located under the opening or was moved by the child in 55% of cases.
33% of the victims had climbed the railing or the opening itself.
Calls for vigilance and prevention campaigns are regularly launched by the health authorities, who recall "that a child should never be left unsupervised near an open window or on a balcony, nor have furniture or objects that the youngest could climb on”.