winds: two seriously injured in Paris – Le Figaro

Two people, one is between life and death, were seriously injured today in Paris by a falling billboard near the Porte Maillot, in the west of the capital, sources say concordant, confirming a report in Le Parisien. The accident occurred around 2:50 p.m. at the corner of Avenue de la Grande Armee and the Avenue Malakoff, a police source said.

The two injured (a couple) a man born in 1990 and a woman born in 1992, are in a “very serious condition”, as the commander Gabriel Plus, spokesman for the Paris fire brigade.

The young woman, whose life is involved, is in a coma and was evacuated to hospital Georges Pompidou. The man, who suffered a fractured femur was taken to the Hospital de la Pitie Salpetriere.

According to the commander Plus, the billboard was fixed on the work of fences and s’ detached with the wind. According to a police source, the panel was sealed in concrete and was next to a construction site. “An investigation has been initiated in order to identify precisely the causes of this tragedy,” responded the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo said in a statement “Pending the results, I asked companies that operate on billboards the highway today check their facilities to ensure they meet the standards and are therefore ability to withstand the weather, “she said.

strong winds reaching gusts near 140 km / h, blowing since Monday morning on Brittany and Normandy and also affect the north, generating impressive waves on the coasts of the Channel and the Atlantic.