A pylon several meters high falls on a football field in Cherbourg, the stadium closed

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It was around 4:30 p.m. Thursday November 28, 2024when a catastrophe could have occurred on the lawn of one of the three fields of football that includes the Picquenot sports center in Tourlaville, delegated municipality of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (Manche).

A pylon suddenly fell

And lighting pylonon which the stadium lighting spots are fixed and measuring several meters high, has, in fact, suddenly fallen.

No casualties

Fortunately, no one was training at the time, with footballers from the AS Cherbourg club arriving an hour later. The incident therefore did not cause any victim.

The stadium is closed

However, the Picquenot stadium is now closed. The municipality of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin has taken a arrested in this sense the next day, Friday November 29. The stadium is “totally closed and this until further notice» he details “considering a technical problem at the André-Picquenot stadium”.

The City of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin has not, for the moment, expressed itself on the subject.

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