The Government wants the work on the Grand Paris Express to be completed for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
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The drama.
A 41-year-old worker died on Tuesday on the construction site of the metro line 16 of the Grand Paris Express in La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis), after a fall in a grinding tank located 30 meters deep, a we learned Thursday from the Bobigny prosecutor's office.
"An investigation is currently being carried out by the La Courneuve police station on the count of manslaughter in the context of work," said this source.
The victim was an employee of the Eiffage construction company.
The "extremely affected" group
The French group "is extremely affected by the death of one of its companions and stands alongside the family and all the teams of the sites concerned to support them," a spokesperson for AFP told AFP. 'Eiffage.
This is the first death of a companion on the Grand Paris Express site, the Société du Grand Paris told AFP.
The Grand Paris Express is a mega-project for a public transport network made up of four metro lines and intended to link the suburbs of Ile-de-France to each other.
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