A man, who fell on the track, was hit by a train at the Nanterre-Université RER station.
He is seriously injured, but his life is not in danger.
An investigation was opened, while certain witnesses accused an RATP security agent of having deliberately pushed him.
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The events occurred on Thursday, November 14, at the Nanterre-Université RER station. A passenger was hit by a train after falling onto the railway tracks. The victim was seriously injured and taken conscious to hospital. His vital prognosis is not in jeopardy, several sources confirmed.
But several questions arise in the aftermath of this incident. Especially since some eyewitnesses affirm that the incident which occurred at the beginning of the afternoon was not necessarily an incident, implicating an RATP security agent.
A chain of events
The events took place during the check of an individual, when the victim approached the RATP security agents, visibly agitated. The person being controlled flees and a chase ensues, during which the gesture of one of the agents causes the victim to fall onto the rails, TF1/LCI learned according to a source close to the investigation before it is not hit by an RER entering Nanterre station. It remains to shed light on the voluntary nature or not of this gesture.
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“I don’t understand how this can happen with people who are supposed to avoid this kind of accident,” castigates a woman who witnessed these few dramatic minutes in the report at the top of this article. “We spoke with all the direct witnesses to the scene. They all agreed to say the same thing, that this young man was pushed by an RATP agent onto the tracks,” she adds, still visibly in shock. “It could have been anyone, me, a friend of mine. That’s what makes me sad,” adds another interlocutor. Statements which will have to be confirmed or refuted by ongoing investigations.
An investigation into attempted homicide was opened and entrusted to the Ile-de-France network brigade (BRF), the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office told AFP. “The presence of numerous witnesses at the station, as well as the video surveillance cameras, should make it possible to establish how the events unfolded” leading to the accident, indicates the mayor of Nanterre, Raphaël Adam. The agent who allegedly committed the act in question remains in police custody. He remains presumed innocent.
At the same time, the boss of the RATP, Jean Castex, requested that an internal investigation be immediately opened “in collaboration and transparency with the associations representing users who sit on the RATP Board of Directors”.
