A 17-year-old boy was killed and a 19-year-old woman seriously injured in an accident overnight from Saturday to Sunday at an amusement park in a seaside resort in southern France, the prosecutor said. the Republic of Béziers.
Sunday morning, the Luna Park in Cap d’Agde was closed and the perimeter cordoned off by the police, noted an AFP correspondent.
“Two people were victims of an accident while using the attraction named +Adrénaline+: a 17-year-old teenager, who died of his injuries, and a 19-year-old young woman transported to Montpellier hospital in absolute urgency,” prosecutor Raphaël Balland said in a statement.
“They would have hit obstacles during their fall, this attraction consisting of tipping over in the void attached to ropes connected to pillars, causing a pendulum movement after a fall of about sixty meters”, specified the prosecutor.
A judicial investigation was opened for homicide and involuntary injuries, and four men, including the manager of Luna Park, placed in police custody at three o’clock in the morning in an attempt to understand as quickly as possible what happened, he said again.
It was windy during the night, “which is very rare in Agde”, explained to AFP the mayor of the town, Gilles d’Ettore, indicating that gusts could be the cause of the accident. .
No municipal decree has been taken in the past to stop this type of carousel in the event of wind, because the question had never arisen in this commune, he also explained.
