A 14-month-old baby was found dead in a parking lot on Wednesday in Bordes, near Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), report RTL and Sud-Ouest.
The infant had been forgotten by his father in the vehicle.
The alert had been launched by the crèche of the nearby town of Assat, which noticed that the baby had not been dropped off by his parents, contrary to usual.
The local crèche, which welcomes 60 children, has 45 children of employees of the Safran company.
The father, an employee of the company, had brought his son to work, and had forgotten him in his car, in the parking lot of the group.
Two open psychological cells
The company warned its employees via an internal press release, according to Sud-Ouest, which specifies that a psychological unit has been opened within the company as well as at the Assat crèche.
The childcare establishment will remain closed until the end of the week.
According to RTL, the Pau prosecution will communicate in the afternoon to give more information on the circumstances of the tragedy.
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This is not the first time that an infant has died left behind in his parents' vehicle.
In June, a caregiver at Saint-Nazaire hospital forgot to drop off his 14-month-old son at the crèche and had left him in his car before he took up his post.
Stuck in the vehicle where the heat quickly rose, the child then lost his life, probably from dehydration and hyperthermia, two particularly dangerous phenomena for a child under two years old.
