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A beautiful summer day that turns into drama. This Tuesday, the emotion was lively in Chaux-de-Fonds after a 67-year-old man lost his life at the freshly renovated pool of the larches. According to a press release from the Neuchâtel cantonal police, it was around 2:30 p.m. when a young boy set off from the 5 -meter diver, and struck the sixty -something woman who was in the water. Seriously injured, the swimmer was quickly taken care of by the emergency services but could not be saved. The swimming pool was evacuated during the intervention, which mobilized the judicial police, an ambulance, the firefighters and the mobile emergency and resuscitation service (SMUR).
The young boy, who had not been identified on Tuesday evening, was heard on Wednesday by the Neuchâtel public prosecutor, the prosecutor in charge of the file, Nicolas Feuz at the end of the day. He is hardly surprised only in such a situation, the comments multiply on social networks to seek an explanation, a responsibility, to express his sadness, his astonishment, his anger. And wants to make a point to silence rumors.
