Two days after the explosion of a building rue Saint-Jacques in the 5th arrondissement of Paris which injured several people, including 6 seriously, research in the rubble is suspended due to a risk of landslide, learned franceinfo from from the Paris police headquarters, confirming information from BFMTV.
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Specialized teams are currently on site to consolidate the buildings weakened by the explosion and assess the risk of collapse, specifies France Bleu. A woman, a professor at the Paris American Academy, a school specializing in fashion, is still missing.
“Always around fifty victims in total”
This Friday morning, the sector was still largely cordoned off by a security perimeter, noted an AFP journalist. Workers knocked down the weakened windows in the street and reinforced the adjoining structure before clearing so that everything does not collapse at once, explained the police to passers-by. Yellow beams were laid to support the facade of the adjoining building, in order to buttress the wall.
The facts occurred on Wednesday shortly before 5 p.m. in this artery in the center of the capital. An explosion followed by a fire caused the collapse of a 17th century pavilion, listed as a historic monument, which bordered the main courtyard of the former Val-de-Grâce abbey and housed a private fashion school, the Paris American Academy.
The origin of the explosion remains undetermined for the time being. The last provisional assessment of the explosion and the destruction of the building, communicated Thursday morning, reported “six victims in absolute emergency”including three major burn victims, and “still around fifty victims in total”.
The Paris public prosecutor’s office opened an investigation for involuntary injuries by manifestly deliberate violation of an obligation of prudence or security. THE “first elements (…) lead us to confirm that this explosion started from the building”, said the public prosecutor Laure Beccuau. The Paris judicial police have been seized of the investigations.
