a teenager falls 30 meters in a public garden

Stupor at the Extraordinary Garden. A 17-year-old girl fell almost 30 meters in Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), Monday November 25. The accident took place in the afternoon, around 4 p.m., at the Extraordinary Garden, a former granite quarry converted into a green space and equipped with cliffside walks. Given the height of his fall, the victim would have fallen from the top of the rocky elevation.

Unclear circumstances

Emergency services and the police intervened as quickly as possible at the scene of the accident. The girl was transported “in serious condition” at the Nantes University Hospital, specifies the departmental fire and rescue service. No details have yet filtered out on the precise circumstances of the teenager's fall.

Inaugurated in 2019, near the Butte Sainte-Anne and the Jules Verne museum, in the west of Nantes, the Extraordinary Garden has been designed with a giant waterfall, as well as lush vegetation made of banana trees and exotic plants. broad leaves. Several climbing routes also punctuate this 3.5 hectare site – currently being expanded – designed as an invitation to travel, in the spirit of Jules Verne's novels.