A young man of 18 died defenestrated, Wednesday afternoon, at the Lycée Édouard Branly in Boulogne-sur-Mer.
"The most probable hypothesis" at this stage would be "that of a suicide", explained the city prosecutor about the death of this internal high school student, "which was not the subject of a particular follow-up ".
A young man of 18 died defenestrated Wednesday afternoon in the Lycée Édouard Branly in Boulogne-sur-Mer, "probably by suicide", AFP learned from the prosecutor, who opened an investigation.
The help was called a little after 3 pm "for a fall from the fifth floor" but "the young man of 18 years was declared dead by the doctor of Smur", indicated the firefighters.
"An investigation is opened in search of the causes of death", even if "the most probable hypothesis" at this stage would be "that of a suicide", told AFP the prosecutor of Boulogne-sur-Mer Pascal Marconville, specifying that according to the first elements collected, "there does not seem to have been intervention of a third".
"The police are checking the reasons why this boy would have jumped, and whether or not it was a voluntary act," he added.
The young man's body was "taken to the forensic institute".
An open psychological cell
According to Joël Surig, academic director of the national education services (Dasen) of the Academy of Lille, "he is a student in boarding school" and "no student would have witnessed" his fall.
"He fell from the boarding school, from the 5th floor, despite the secure windows," he added.
"There is nothing that could suggest that there was a student in pain. (...) It is not a young person who had stood out for a particular situation, nor who was the subject of a particular follow-up ", he assured.
The academy, the town hall, the prefecture "have all mobilized, and a psychological unit has been opened, with a doctor and two nurses", said Joël Surig, expressing the sadness of the educational community.