Orange with 6Medias, published on Wednesday, July 12, 2023 at 8:05 p.m.
During the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, passengers on a train to connect Zurich from Mulhouse saw their race stopped in Sierentz, not far from Strasbourg. And this, because the violent storms raging in the east of the country caused the fall of a tree.
A nightmarish night.
While they were to go to Zurich, 355 passengers on a train from Mulhouse could not go further than Sierentz, about twenty kilometers south of Strasbourg, because of the storms which hit the Alsace Tuesday July 11, explains TF1 Info. Travelers got stranded after a tree fall and everyone had to get off the platform around 1am.
A new train chartered Wednesday morning
“The train was completely shaking and we were stopped and isolated on the train. SNCF staff were unable to give us any information”, testified a passenger to the microphones of TF1. Once docked, the municipality of Sierentz took care of these 355 people by sheltering them in its gymnasium to spend the night in safety.
On Wednesday morning, the SNCF brought in a new train to allow these travelers to complete their journey, which will have lasted longer than expected. Storms that did a lot of damage in Alsace, according to France Bleu. About 6,000 homes were without electricity for a while while firefighters carried out almost 300 interventions.
