A crèche of the People & Baby network in Lyon will be administratively closed for three months after a fire started on Tuesday during which children were stranded inside the establishment, announced the prefecture. This decision comes three months after the death in a permanently closed crèche of the same group in Lyon of an 11-month-old girl, probably killed by an employee who made her ingest a caustic product. She explained that she had been “exceeded by her tears” according to the prosecution.
The closure decided on Wednesday of this crèche in the 4th arrondissement of Lyon will make it possible “to verify that the operating conditions of the establishment comply with the legislative and regulatory provisions and guarantee respect for the health, physical or mental or the education of the children welcomed. “, according to the press release from the prefecture.
“Moons and Stars”
Late Tuesday afternoon, the firefighters intervened at “Lunes et Toiles”, a bilingual crèche of Peuple & Baby, alerted by the staff to the start of a fire, they told AFP.
From the same source, children would have turned the button controlling an electric plate on which were placed a few tea towels, which would then have started to burn, giving off a “very light smoke”. The two assistants would then have gone out with six children, but had not been able to recover four others, who remained inside, because the door was blocked.
The firefighters quickly intervened and, after breaking down the door, recovered the children. None of them were injured and no hospitalization was required.