Who can imagine, when enjoying your balcony quietly, watering your plants or dining on a garden table, that it can collapse? Yet this is what happened Friday, May 19 in the evening to two sexagenarians in the 13th arrondissement of Paris according to the prefecture of police, confirming information from Actu.
The accident occurred between 19:45 p.m. and 20 p.m. at 132 avenue d'Italie, according to Actu. Two people were transported to the hospital with a life-threatening prognosis, and one of them was still this Monday between life and death, according to the prefecture of police, the other having received 90 days of total incapacity for work. An investigation was opened for unintentional injuries of more than three months.
Cracks reported four years ago
This is a low-rent building of Paris Habitat that would have already been the subject of reports, according to France Bleu, for cracks. "One floor higher, for years now, the balcony was almost no longer used for fear that a crack would worsen," says this media, which interviewed residents on the spot, one of whom claims that the balcony that collapsed had also been reported four years ago, without work being carried out subsequently.
Technical investigations will be carried out, according to the police prefecture.
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