An investigation opened for “manslaughter” after the death of a ten-year-old girl during a school ski trip in Isère

The victim “deviated his trajectory and hit the rock wall which borders the track on one side”, explains the Grenoble prosecutor.

A 10-year-old girl died on Wednesday, January 22, after a collision with a rock wall on Tuesday, when she was skiing in the area of ​​the Villard-de-Lans resort (Isère), announced the Grenoble prosecutor’s office in a press release. An investigation into “involuntary manslaughter” was opened and entrusted to the high mountain gendarmerie platoons, he added.

The skiing accident occurred while the little girl “went on a ski trip as part of school”specifies the public prosecutor, explaining that “the group, at a third star level, was moving on a blue ‘connection’ track”. “For a reason that remains to be clarified, she deviated from her trajectory and hit the rock wall which borders the track on one side, at a moderate speed, according to witnesses. Despite her helmet, she suffered a head trauma and she died this evening around 8:30 p.m.details the parquet.