Lil. a dead person was found under the rubble of collapsed buildings

The rescue operation ended early Sunday morning, after a doctor was found in the middle of the rubble of two buildings that collapsed in downtown Lille on Saturday morning, possibly after several hours of searching.

Firefighters did find the body of a person who died as a result of the collapse of two buildings on Pierre Mauro street in Lille this night. In the words of Stephane Boventre, commander of relief operations.there is a lot of convergence that we are on the person we are looking for in the afternoon“A 45-year-old doctor who was allocated an apartment in the building on weekends. “His body was sent to the Institute of Forensic Medicine. It will become clear later“, he elaborated.

A police source said the victim was found shortly before 01:30. The prefecture confirmed the discovery of a dead person. According to the first elements, he is a 45-year-old psychiatrist who left Calais to go to Reims and was rented an apartment by friends to spend the night in Lille, the prosecutor of the Republic of Lille told AFP. Carol Etienne. The Calais Hospital Center, where this doctor, Dr. Alexander Klein, was president, issued a press release Sunday morning to express its “accidental death“. “A tribute will be held“In memory of the head of the pole of mental health and drug addiction, it is noted.

Two three-story buildings, one under construction, collapsed around 9:15 a.m. Saturday on rue Pierre-Moreau, a downtown shopping street, but most residents were able to evacuate due to construction. the alarm given by one of them a few hours ago.

Several politicians initially indicated that “noa priori“There were no casualties while firefighters announced they were looking for this doctor, whose car was parked at the site and did not show up for his appointment.

Another person could be evacuated from the rubble Saturday afternoon with minor injuries, according to emergency services.

According to BFMTV, the third building to the right of the two is now in danger of collapsing. The findings revealed that the walls of this third building had moved more than a meter. A security perimeter was established, the building was evacuated. if it doesn’t collapse on its own, the authorities will destroy it.

“Raising the device»

“We’ve just moved on to the dogs for the ultimate removal of doubt. We’ll move on to upgrading the entire deviceLt. Col. Stefan Boventre said at night. “The scene is now frozen for the prosecutor.»

Lille’s prosecutor’s office told AFP it had opened an investigation into “endangering the lives of others” and ordered:forensic examination“.

According to Olivier Klein, the minister’s delegate for housing affairs, who will travel to Lille on Monday, this building was not “stricken with ill health“.

Dozens of people had been evacuated several hours before the collapse, explained Lille’s Socialist Mayor Martin Aubry, who was on the scene Saturday morning. One of the residents who returned home at 3 o’clock raised the alarm, noticing “that the building has moved“. “We could not open the door, we heard the fall of rubble“France Bleu Nord was told by this young man, Thibaut Lemay, who immediately alerted the emergency services. The city police and firefighters decided to evacuate one building, the other seems empty, assessing.that there was a real risknoted Martin Aubrey.