Tuesday, the police officers of Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales) rescued a little girl, aged 18 months, who was leaning dangerously in the void, to a balcony, located on the first floor of a building.

It is a witness who alerted the police.

Dispatched there, the police "hear the shrill cries of a very young child", who was standing, "on a piece of furniture attached to the railing of the window sill", which she had to climb, indicate the services police station of the Pyrénées-Orientales.

"Bending towards the void", the little girl called "desperately her mother".

The scale of a requisitioned craftsman

A policeman then climbs the facade, "while having a heartwarming dialogue" with the little girl, but the opening is too high.

The ladder of a craftsman, whose truck passed around the corner, will eventually be used to reach the child.

The policeman manages to take her in his arms, and to comfort her, before the emergency services take charge of her.

It is at this moment that a woman parks her car at the bottom of the building and presents herself to the police officers, worried about their presence in number.

It is the mother of the little girl, who recognized, continue the police services of the Pyrénées-Orientales, to be "absent to go to the pharmacy", leaving the child in the apartment, the "large windows. open ”.

She was summoned to the police station to be heard.

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