Two buildings collapsed in the center of Lille: rescuers still searching for a missing doctor

Firefighters continued to search the rubble of two collapsed buildings early in the morning in the center of Lille on Saturday evening, in search of a missing doctor, “preparing for the operation”.Long Term,

Two three-story buildings, one of which was under construction, collapsed around 9:15 a.m. on Rue Pierre-Mauroy, a shopping street in the center of town, but most residents were saved thanks to the alerts launched by the . one of them in the night

Many politicians initially indicated that “possibly“No casualties until firefighters announce they are looking for it”potential victim,We are pretty sure that person is in the rubble.” said Lieutenant-Colonel Stéphane Beauventre.His phone doesn’t answer, his car is in the parking lot, (…) and he hasn’t taken his fine,We are focusing all our efforts (…) on manual scavenging to reach this victim.“, he said. According to firefighters, this man had seen himself”Weekend Accommodation,

Another person with minor injuries was also pulled from the rubble, he said. ,Exploration and excavation work (…) will be of long duration“, warned Fire Captain Sebastian Pagnaco at the end of the day, specifying that he had requested the reinforcement of a deconstruction arm.

The Lille prosecutor’s office told AFP it had launched an investigation for “endangering the lives of others” and employed “judicial expertise”. According to Olivier Klein, the ministerial representative for housing, who will visit Lille on Monday, this building was not “plagued by inattention,

The reflexes of the student returning in the middle of the night avoid the worst

Lille’s socialist mayor Martin Aubry, who was present at the scene on Saturday morning, said a dozen people had been evacuated hours before the collapse. It was one of the residents who returned home at 3:00 am who reported, “that the building was gone,We couldn’t open the door, we heard the sound of debris falling“, France Bleu Nord told this young man, Thibault Lemay, who immediately alerted the emergency services.

The municipal police and firefighters decided to evacuate one building, the other seemed empty,”that was a real riskMs Aubry said.I still tremble, because if this gentleman hadn’t come home at 3:00 in the morning that night and hadn’t come with us (…) he would have died.“, she said, before the announcement that a local resident was missing. He said he took”an order of imminent danger,I hadn’t slept yet when the firefighters started banging on the doors, but I thought it was the party people and I lay in bed.Another resident, 35-year-old Benjamin Lopard, told AFP.

,When the police arrived I thought the matter was serious“,” continues the young man, who left at about 5:30 with his papers, his computer and a change of clothes.Now I realize how incredibly lucky we were“Without this clearance,” he said.we will all be in wooden boxes,

Interior Minister Gerald Darmin thanked Twitter.students who sounded the alarm last night,

Nearby buildings were evacuated on Saturday morning “as a precaution”, and the perimeter was guarded by several police officers, while tarpaulins were put up to prevent passersby from seeing the operation in progress.

At night, firefighters walked across the rubble under the light of powerful searchlights, a dusty mix of bricks and metal beams, the remains of scaffolding at the front of the building, in which one could distinguish stairways and door frames in balance.

,We heard the noise for a few seconds, very slowly at first. We thought it was the scaffolding that was falling“,” told AFP Ludovic Fischer, 30, who works in an adjoining building.When we realized that this whole building was collapsing, we all ran“, He added. “i got the fear of my life,