A 15-year-old girl killed herself on Saturday April 27, 2024, by falling through the roof Of an abandoned factory located between Fraisses and Unieux (Loire), announced the same day France Bleu Saint-Étienne Loire . Another young girl, aged 17, was seriously injured in the fall.
“The two victims are part of a group of four young people who broke into this industrial wasteland on horseback,” declared to theAFP Christophe Faverjon, the PCF mayor of Unieux.
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A “huge danger” on this site
The two other people in this group of urbex practitioners (the exploration of urban wastelands), “witnesses of the accident and shocked were taken care of by the emergency services”the latter specified.
“I hope that the demolition of this site will take place as quickly as possible”indicated on the microphone of France Blue Christiane Barailler, the mayor of Fraisses, denouncing her “huge danger”.
“Many wild intrusions”, according to the company responsible for surveillance
“Of course these young people should not return. It was forbidden, well written everywhere, closed with padlocks… But today, I just want to spare a thought for their families”added the one who quickly went there.
The prosecutor indicates to Progress that the two young girls “passed through sheets of fiber cement and fell from a height of ten to twelve meters.” An investigation has been opened.
Despite the closure of the site since 2010, the company responsible for its surveillance denounces to the media “numerous wild intrusions”.
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“In the process of being decontaminated, before being demolished”, assures the mayor of Unieux
This factory, which belonged to the Swedish steel group Akers, occasionally attracts squatters, graffiti artists, urbex practitioners or people who use it as illegal dumping, confirms theAFP. Installed on a 6.5 hectare site, it is now the property of the community.
“This industrial wasteland is being decontaminated, before being demolished”specified Christophe Faverjon, also vice-president of the Saint-Etienne metropolis.
During the night from Sunday to Monday, a 17-year-old high school student, who was apparently practicing urbex alone, killed himself in Lyon by falling from the dome of the Hôtel-Dieu, from where he wanted to photograph the sunrise.
