The worst was avoided on Saturday afternoon at the Seine-Port treetop adventure park.
A group of around twenty young people from Loir-et-Cher spend the day in this site recognized as the 2nd park in Ile-de-France with fifteen courses, 50 zip lines and 200 different workshops.
Shortly before 4 p.m., together with others, a 15-year-old teenager attempted the sporty red course with the Tarzan Jump, from a height of 8 meters high.
Suddenly he loses his balance.
He manages to hold on to a rope, but then falls 5 meters to the ground.
Alerted, the firefighters quickly arrived on site.
Wounded in the wrist, his hand burned, and above all suffering from head trauma, the boy, still conscious, was intubated, then transported by helicopter to the Kremlin-Bicêtre hospital (Val-de-Marne) in critical condition according to the police. .
This Monday around 5:30 p.m., we learned that he is now “in a stable condition, under surveillance for 48 hours, particularly at the cerebral level”.
Relief among the victim's loved ones and the site team.
An investigation is open.
The managers and supervisory staff of the park were interviewed all weekend to establish the circumstances of the fall.
“This is the first time this has happened to us”
“I hear from him all the time,” sighs the site manager, very affected.
According to his partner, “this is the first time this has happened to us.
The group had an introduction to the safety instructions, then we checked on the initiation site that they had understood correctly.
In the morning, they did the yellow, green and blue courses.
And in the afternoon, they set off on the sporty red course.
The operator even gave them the safety instructions just before.”
According to him, “another operator followed the group”.
On the safety side, all the supervisors are qualified as acrobatic course operator at height (OPAH).
Established in July 2023, the safety commission's report - satisfactory - was sent to investigators who are continuing their investigations.