A nearly one-year-old baby died Monday in Saint-Nazaire in a car where his parents had left him alone for several hours, while the temperature was around 28 ° C, said Tuesday the public prosecutor of Saint-Nazaire. Nazaire, Sylvie Canovas-Lagarde.
The child, a boy of about 12 months, was discovered at 5:30 p.m. unconscious in the car seat of a car parked on Boulevard Wilson, at the seafront, near the city center.
Firefighters were unable to revive the child.
"An absolute tragedy"
According to the magistrate, who evokes an “absolute tragedy”, an investigation has been opened and the parents have been heard.
According to the first elements, the baby had been alone in the vehicle for several hours, she indicated, without further details on the couple of parents, domiciled in Saint-Nazaire.
The prosecutor clarified to Actu.fr that the child had been "forgotten" by one of the parents, according to the first elements of the investigation.