Val-de-Marne: a building collapses in Vincennes, checks underway to find possible victims

the essentials This Tuesday, a building under construction partially collapsed in Vincennes (Val-de-Marne). Checks are underway to ensure that there are no victims. Part of a building under construction, located near a kindergarten, collapsed late Tuesday afternoon in Vincennes (Val-de-Marne), near Paris, and checks are still in progress , we learned from concordant sources. “Collapse of a building in Vincennes. We do not yet know the human toll. Please do not interfere with rescue operations”, tweeted Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior. Collapse of a building under repair in #Vincennes | All children in the nearby nursery and school are evacuated and safe.
Excavations in progress by the @PompiersParis to search for possible other victims.
Let the emergency services act on the area. pic.twitter.com/gHnvM1JoaD — Préfecture de Police (@prefpolice) June 7, 2022 The Créteil prosecutor’s office indicated that there were no victims “at this stage” (around 7:00 p.m., editor’s note), wishing to stay ” prudent” because the balance sheet can change. Contacted, the prefecture of Val-de-Marne and the mayor of Vincennes, Charlotte Libert-Albanel, indicated that they were currently carrying out “checks” but had no notions of victims for the moment. “A huge, terrible noise” According to the Paris firefighters, all the pupils of the nursery school “responded to the call” and “checks are in progress concerning the workers” of the building under construction, which collapsed around 5 p.m. “All the children in the crèche and the adjoining leisure center have been evacuated and are safe,” the firefighters continued. Thérèse LeBrun, a trader located opposite the building, said she “heard a huge noise, terrible, and suddenly there was a lot of dust”. “I called the firefighters and they came, we see a lot of stretchers passing (empty, she says),” she added, adding that the building in question “had been under construction for about 2 years. “. Another witness contacted by telephone, Justine Boulanger, telecommuting just next to the scene, “felt a great tremor in the floor of (her) apartment around 4:50 p.m.”. “Everything started to shake, the decorative objects fell on the ground and the animals howled”, she indicated, before seeing “the building collapse on itself as if the interior had been sucked into the ground”. A “huge cloud of dust” followed, she said.