An employee of a sports hall, born in 1996, died Monday in the 11th arrondissement during a cryotherapy session. A client, born in 1991, was hospitalized in serious condition. His vital prognosis is committed. The facts took place around 6:20 p.m.
According to the first elements, a nitrogen leak (an odorless and colorless gas) from the cryotherapy cabin is the cause of poisoning. The cryotherapy cabin would have been repaired on Monday.
The gym, which had 150 people, was evacuated shortly after the facts. Three other people who provided care for the two victims were taken care of in relative emergency.
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An orderly autopsy
An autopsy and toxicological analyzes have been ordered to determine the cause of death, said the prosecution.
An investigation in search of the causes of death is open and entrusted to the police station of the 11th arrondissement of Paris, in co-saisine with the labor inspectorate.
Cryotherapy is a “cold therapy” which consists in placing a person for two to three minutes in rooms or cabins whose temperature can drop under -110 ° C.
The person is immersed in ice water baths or nitrogen bedrooms.
Initially intended for high -level athletes in order to prevent or treat muscle pain after exercise, this practice is proposed to relieve inflammatory or neurological diseases, and even used outside of any pathological context.
