Le Figaro Nantes
He had gotten lost under the petticoats of the Anne de Bretagne bridge. Tuesday, the police called the firefighters for help to find a 50-year-old man, who disappeared in Nantes a little after 11 p.m., in the area of the Quai de la Fosse and the Victor-Schoelcher footbridge. , in the center of the city. At the request of the national police, a dog team dispatched by the firefighters scented a trail along the quay, near the Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery, pointing in the direction of the neighboring bridge.
Recovered by divers
According to information from the Loire-Atlantique Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (SDIS) transmitted to Le
Figaro
, the wanted individual was in fact found around 1:24 a.m., in the waters of the Loire, clinging to the roadway of the bridge Anne de Bretagne, approximately 330 meters downstream from the Victor-Schoelcher footbridge.
“The man was identified hanging from a pole on the bridge. It was able to be recovered thanks to the action of divers,”
specifies the SDIS of Loire-Atlantique. Transported to the shore aboard the fire boat, the slightly injured person was subsequently transported to the Nantes University Hospital.
The Anne de Bretagne bridge, in Nantes, will be closed to automobile traffic from the end of April 2024 until May 2025. The project aims to triple the width of the structure in order to pass the metropolitan tramway and to green the whole thing into a “garden bridge”. Work which is part of the logic of reducing car traffic in Nantes.