A four-year-old girl drowned on Tuesday afternoon at the Cergy-Pontoise leisure center, an area of ponds located in a meander of the Oise, the Val-d’prefecture told AFP. Oise. The disappearance of the girl, who was part of the group of a leisure center in Vigneux-sur-Seine (Essonne), was noted in the afternoon and required the evacuation of more than 3,200 people for the needs of the research.
“She would have been discovered in a pond which is not supervised, located near the seaside resort, in cardio-respiratory arrest. She could not be resuscitated and the death was confirmed,” the prefecture told AFP. The research mobilized 25 firefighters and a medico-psychological support unit was set up.
600 drownings between June and August
“There is a very big effort by the leisure base in connection with the State to avoid this kind of drama. The supervision and vigilance of supervisors and parents are really the factor that must be emphasized, ”added the prefecture.
At the end of July in the neighboring department of Yvelines, a five-year-old girl drowned in the Seine after falling from the pontoon of a nautical base in Bougival. Almost 600 drownings, including nearly a third fatal, occurred in France between the beginning of June and the beginning of August, according to figures from Public Health France.