Lively emotion in the Keredern district to the north of the city of Brest.
A 69-year-old woman fell to her death from the balcony of her apartment on the fourth floor of a building.
The fall took place on Friday, around 5:30 p.m.
The sexagenarian remained for a few moments clinging to the balcony with her feet in the void.
Alerted by his cries, residents rushed down the building, trying to position a mattress.
The victim, exhausted, ended up letting go and hit the ground heavily as well as a young man who was trying to catch him.
Hospitalized, she ultimately did not survive her injuries, reports
Le Télégramme
sunday.
Aged about thirty, the man who tried to save her is seriously injured in the pelvis.
His days, however, are not in danger.
An investigation has been opened.
The sexagenarian would have stepped over the railing of her balcony herself, according to the Breton daily.
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