A 40-year-old, seen pushing his daughter off the Saint-Nazaire bridge, was taken into police custody, the city prosecutor's office announced on Wednesday June 29, which opened an investigation into intentional homicide.
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Two soldiers from the gendarmerie on leave, who were on the Saint-Nazaire bridge on Tuesday afternoon, saw "
a vehicle stop in front of them from which a man and a young girl were exiting heading towards the railing of the bridge
" , Saint-Nazaire prosecutor Sylvie Canovas-Lagarde said in a press release sent on Wednesday.
“
They saw the man throwing her into the void
,” she added.
The Saint-Nazaire bridge, which spans the Loire estuary, culminates at 68 meters above sea level.
The man, born in 1977, "
marked his intention to jump from the bridge, a gesture interrupted by the soldiers
", according to the same source.
The young woman, born in 2004, succumbed to her injuries.
The investigation established that it was a father and his daughter.
The investigations "
now tend to establish the circumstances of the acting out and to specify the family environment
", specifies the prosecution.
The flagrant investigation of the intentional homicide count was entrusted to the brigades of Montoir-de-Bretagne and Saint-Nazaire.
