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A small motor boat that makes circles in the water, and ends up ejecting its two young occupants.
The tragedy was narrowly avoided on Tuesday March 28 on the Grand Large lake in Décines-Charpieu, located in the eastern suburbs of Lyon, in which two teenagers aged 12 and 13, one of whom could not swim , found themselves projected.
They had lost control of a small motor boat that they had just stolen from Cercle yachting shortly after 6 p.m., as the mayor of the town, Laurence Fautra (LR) told Le
Figaro
.
The city councilor underlines the intervention of a municipal police team which quickly went to the scene after being alerted by walkers who witnessed the scene.
The agents warned the firefighters, but faced with the urgency of the situation, one of them decided to intervene himself.
The two teenagers were then "
attached to a sailboat moored more than a hundred meters from the shore
," says first deputy Jean-Emmanuel Alloin.
They couldn't get out of the water while the youngest, who can't swim, was about to lose his grip.
"His head was starting to sink into this relatively cool water, with currents"
, relates Laurence Fautra.
The two teenagers were finally pulled out of the water by the municipal police officer.
Before being taken care of by the firefighters and transported to the hospital for hypothermia.
The city councilor insists on the attitude of the policeman who saved them from drowning
:
“A heroic act, of courage and dedication at the risk of his life”
.
The mayor announced that a medal of merit would be awarded to the brigadier.
As for the two teenagers, she plans to receive them in her office with their parents for a good soap in addition to this big scare.
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