It was around 6 p.m. on Monday when a resident of Saint-Nazaire, a health professional, received a call from his panicked wife : while picking up their one-year-old son from the crèche, she had just learned that he had not set foot there all day when his father was supposed to drop him off. A call that made this father realize that the worst had happened : on his way to work, he had forgotten his son in the car, when he had to drop him off at 8:30 am.
Arriving near his vehicle, the man could only see that his baby was lifeless. And despite the intervention of the firefighters, who arrived very quickly, nothing could save the boy who succumbed to cardio-respiratory arrest probably due to dehydration. It must be said that during the day, the temperatures had risen to more than 28°C outside.
A “absolute drama“, according to the prosecutor in charge of the investigation, who explained that the man had “parked in the Saint-Nazaire hospital car park“, where he works, completely forgetting his son in the back of his vehicle. No other information was however given in the course of the day or on the identity of the parents concerned. urban security was opened to determine the exact causes of this tragedy.