On Saturday evening, an accident has upset the tranquility of Corlay, shared by more than a thousand inhabitants, in Côtes-d’Armor. Students from elementary school St. Joseph gathered in the hall of the town festivals to offer the public their show of the year. Show which ended in tragedy when shortly before the end of the performance, around 22 pm, a fire was accidentally said backstage.
This is the time to relight a torch that flashback caused the accident, burning four. Among them, Isabelle Taillard, school principal, 43 years old, Sylvain Besnard, teacher, aged 33 and two children aged 9 and 10 years.
“A vision of horror “
Meanwhile, the other side of the curtain, the scenes are connected, and when A sound on stage, the audience guess the show goes on. Children are panicked. They run away to join their parents. Behind the scenes, the flames spread to four people. Yamina, a mother who prepared the children, is deeply upset by what happened. It speaks of shocking images: “This is a vision of horror. I saw the little Tristan who was running face on fire. I saw Isabelle, the teacher, fall to the ground, his clothes on fire. “ Yamina says trying to smother the fire by stamping their feet on the ground, then with clothes, but the home came back on instantly.
Finally, Vincent Burlot, parent of student, who attended the show “arrived with a fire extinguisher and managed to stifle it. “
Yamina stresses that teachers had only one idea in mind: to care for children. “When I held the hand of Isabella, the teacher, she told us to go and see the children. For its part, Sylvain did not want to be taken care of him, he thought only small. “
There had been several repetitions
The emergency then come and take care of four people burned. They will be transported by firefighters and Plémet Corlay at the hospital of Saint-Brieuc. Young Tristan, 10, more severely burned, is then transported by helicopter to the burns unit of Nantes.
The teacher was wearing synthetic clothing. She was severely affected in the legs and arms. The second child and the teacher remained under observation this weekend at the hospital.
Pierre-Yvon Corbel, the mayor of Corlay is, as all the inhabitants of the town in shock . “The show was repeated several times. I saw the torches were used. It was not a production house. “ According to a dad this show, ” such images will remain etched forever in the memory of the inhabitants. “
Psychological cell
technicians criminal identification gendarmerie were on hand Saturday to take samples. For their part, the police are investigating to determine the exact circumstances of this tragedy took place.
The court was seized. A psychological cell was set up. Saturday, she had already received about thirty people.
Isabelle SIGOURA.
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