“Nobody saw that our daughter was at the bottom of the water”. Moussa and Jamilatou S., the parents of Fanta, 7 years old, interviewed by The Parisian, did not take off. The 7-year-old girl drowned on Monday while bathing with her classmates, at school, at the Georges-Hermant swimming pool, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. They denounce a lack of surveillance at the edge of the pool, a human error, which could cost the life of their daughter, still plunged into an “artificial coma” and whose state of health is still worrying.
She has been hospitalized for three days at the Robert-Debré hospital where her condition requires deep sedation. According to our colleagues, the doctors have many fears, in particular concerning her brain, her lungs and her kidneys and the sequelae that she could keep following the accident. “I spend my nights at his bedside, and my wife goes there during the day”, slips Moussa, 64, At Parisian. His wife entrusts bringing him every day “her comforters that she loves so much”.
According to the girl’s parents, the circumstances of the tragedy remain unclear. She would have been found inanimate at the bottom of the water, without anyone knowing how long this immersion lasted. It was one of his comrades who gave the alert, while the three school teachers, two teachers from the City of Paris (PVP), two municipal educators and two lifeguards, who supervised the group, did not realized nothing. His father Moussa is to be interviewed by the police but has no information on the exact circumstances of the accident for the time being. The police from the 19th arrondissement police station, responsible for the investigation, also have video surveillance cameras in the swimming pool to investigate.