Tragic accident in Gonesse (95). A worker died on Thursday on the construction site of line 17 of the Grand Paris Express, indicated the department’s firefighters, confirming information from our colleagues from the Parisian.
Early in the morning, on the Triangle de Gonesse, agricultural land located between the departmental road 170 and the Autoroute du Nord, which must accommodate the only station of Val-d’Oise of the GPE, the victim, a young man of 22 years, was crushed under concrete. Rescuers who arrived on the scene were unable to revive him and he was declared dead shortly afterwards. The construction site was put on hold.
The fifth death on the Grand Paris Express
The president of the Île-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse presented her thoughts to the family, to the relatives of the victim via a post on Twitter adding: “All the light must be shed on the causes of this tragedy. »
This is the fifth death on a Grand Paris Express site since the launch of the project. Tragic irony of the calendar, the trial of the employers of Maxime Wagner, the first worker to die on an automatic metro site on February 28, 2020, was held this Wednesday.