A 14-year-old teenager drowned in the Seine in Évry-Courcouronnes (Essonne), this Sunday, according to information from the Parisian. The boy, living in Saint-Michel-sur-Orge, was accompanied by four friends and had decided to go cool off in the Seine. Still according to our daily colleagues, the young man would have “jumped into the water before sinking”.
The firefighters quickly arrived on the scene, in vain
The police were warned of a drowning around 2:30 p.m., at the level of the auxiliary quay for boats in Évry-Courcouronnes, on the border of Ris-Orangis. The firefighters quickly arrived on the scene and the divers came to help. The latter only recovered the body of the young victim using a boat forty minutes later. The teenager was discovered 1.50 m from the pontoon completely submerged. The emergency services provided cardiac massage, without success.
The young teenager was declared dead around 6 p.m. in the ambulance which took him to the Kremlin-Bicètre hospital (Val-de-Marne). If the thesis of the accident “is preferred, an autopsy must take place to determine the causes of death”, still indicates The Parisianciting a police source