A fourth-year law student threw himself out of the window of his university residence in Villeurbanne, near Lyon.

Its vital prognosis is engaged.

After this tragedy, the student unions underlined the precariousness and distress suffered by many young people due to the health crisis.

A young man jumped from the fourth floor of his student residence in Villeurbanne, near Lyon this weekend.

The young man in law master is between life and death after this desperate gesture.

On social networks, many students expressed their shock, while stressing their difficult living conditions due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Indeed, young people find themselves more isolated and struggle to find a small job to make ends meet.

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Educational leaders sound the alarm

The gesture of this student from Lyon has no explanation for the moment, but educational officials and student unions immediately stressed that the precariousness caused by the health crisis may have played a role.

"We are upset and surround him with our thoughts. The reasons for this gesture are to be determined. But the closing of the lecture halls weakens," argued the dean of universities, Hervé de Gaudemar.

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"Between 15 and 20% of students declare themselves in difficulty or in great difficulty", adds Eric Carpano, president of the University of Lyon 3, interviewed by Europe 1. "They suffer from isolation, lack of social relations, of the difficulty of taking courses at a distance. But if we are reconfigured in a few weeks, we will certainly have to put in place even tougher measures. "

Desperate students

This Sunday, the Lyon student solidarity union also stressed that "this is not the first student suicide during this crisis and even less the first in a Lyon university room".

The organization claims to have learned of two other suicides during a meeting with the rectorate in December.

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The presidency of the University of Lyon 3 was to announce this Monday a plan to fight against student insecurity.

With in particular the recruitment of two to three additional social workers and the establishment of a tutoring system between students in the Crous residences.

Measures that could seem derisory, the Lyon campus with a total of more than 20,000 students.