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On Thursday, November 14, a young man was seriously injured after falling on the RER A rails and struck by a train arriving at the station. The events took place after the intervention of RATP security.
This Thursday, November 14, during an intervention by an RATP security team, a young man was unbalanced, falling on the rails before being hit by a train entering the station, according to information from the railway authority. transport.
RATP confirmed the incident in a press release, stressing that the victim, although seriously injured, was not in serious danger. “The RATP victim assistance unit was immediately triggered, and the RATP will continue to keep itself informed of developments in the victim’s state of health,” writes the authority.
An internal investigation has also been opened
“They pushed him!”, react, in a video published on social networks, witnesses of the scene, speaking of RATP agents. While the circumstances of the facts remain to be determined, the Nanterre public prosecutor's office has opened an investigation “retaining the highest legal qualification at this stage of attempted murder”, according to information from BFMTV. A qualification that could evolve over the course of the investigations.
ud83dudea8ud83cuddebud83cuddf7FLASH – “They pushed him!” » Reaction of passers-by who saw the RATP agents who pushed Yacine, 20 years old, onto the rails and who was hit by the RER at #Nanterre. (Witness) pic.twitter.com/wcn0biYy4n
— Actu React Info (@actureact_info) https://twitter.com/actureact_info/status/1857119334998343699?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
At the same time, police custody was initiated at 2:45 p.m. on Thursday, said the Nanterre public prosecutor's office, without revealing the identity of the person concerned. The rail networks brigade of the Paris metropolitan area local security department (DSPAP) was asked to carry out the investigations.
In the interest of transparency, Jean Castex, president of RATP, ordered an internal investigation to complete the legal investigations. The authority assured that this investigation would be carried out “in conjunction with the federation of user representative associations which sits on the Board of Directors” of the public company.
