The suicide of a man in a shopping center in La Défense provokes a crowd movement

Panic at La Défense. A huge noise caused by the fall of a man from the floors caused a crowd movement at the Les 4 Temps shopping center, in La Défense (Hauts-de-Seine), Saturday February 18, reports a source familiar with the matter to franceinfo .

The police went to the scene at the end of the afternoon. According to the first elements of the investigation, it is a suicide. The man jumped from the fourth floor, learned franceinfo from concordant sources. “I asked the prefect of police to go there”, announced on Twitter Gerald Darmanin.

“It’s confusing, but I saw a person on the ground. The police asked us to clear”, told franceinfo a witness present on the spot shortly after the facts. Numerous videos posted on social networks testified to the panic of the crowd in the vicinity of the mall. Some images were accompanied by messages evoking a gunshot. According to the first elements of the investigation, it was the sound of the fall that made believe in a gunshot.