The impact on traffic will be significant. The Saint-Nazaire bridge, the longest bridge in France, will be closed to traffic this Wednesday from 9:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. indicates the departmental council of Loire-Atlantique, manager of the only Loire crossing between the estuary and the Nantes conurbation. The purpose of the closure is to allow an investigating judge and investigators to reconstruct the tragedy that took place on June 28, 2022. On that day, an 18-year-old woman was killed by falling from the top of the bridge, her father by her side.
Indicted for murder
The latter is suspected of intentional homicide, witnesses having seen the man go down with his daughter and push her over the safety rail. A version disputed by the forties, who threatened to jump from the work when the gendarmes arrived on the spot. He was indicted for murder. The investigations “now tend to establish the circumstances of the passage to the act”, specifies the parquet floor of Saint-Nazaire.
The Saint-Nazaire bridge culminates at 68 meters high. Only emergency vehicles will be allowed to cross it on Tuesday.