A horror scene occurred in the metro on Sunday June 30, 2024 in Paris. That day, police officers made a macabre discovery at the Belleville station. Located in the 10th arrondissement of the capital, this station is served by lines 2 and 11 of the Paris metro. In fact, the lifeless body of a man was found on site around 7 a.m.
According to images captured by video surveillance cameras, which filmed the entire scene, the victim appeared on the tracks of the Paris metro. Unfortunately, she was quickly electrocuted by the tracks. In any case, this is what a police source told the Parisian. These images confirm a witness’s version of the facts. It was precisely the latter who alerted the emergency services after seeing the victim being electrocuted.
Paris: Man electrocuted to death on metro tracks
In his article, The Parisian specifies that “this electrocution phenomenon depends on the rail with which the victim came into contact“. In concrete terms, the Paris metro is continuously powered by 750 volts. Using a ‘traction rail’. It is therefore this famous rail which presents a danger of death, because it is constantly under electrical voltage.
Alongside this, the Paris metro also has so-called “rails”.rolling“. The latter are not electrified for their part. This explains in particular why some people go down onto the metro tracks without being instantly electrocuted. Despite the intervention of the firefighters, the victim could not be resuscitated.
Traffic on metro line 11 was severely disrupted on Sunday, June 30, 2024
The lifeless body of this man was taken care of by the funeral home. He was thus transported to the Medico-Legal Institute of Paris. Unsurprisingly, this incident caused numerous disruptions to the traffic of the Paris metro on Sunday, June 30, 2024.A train is parked in Belleville heading towards Rosny-sous-Bois. Due to an incident requiring the intervention of our agents“, indicated in particular the X account (formerly Twitter) of line 11.
Finally, after four long hours of disruption, traffic on this Paris metro line returned to normal. Also serving the station in which the body of this man was found, metro line 2 was not affected by this incident on Sunday June 30, 2024.
