A gendarme saved, on Tuesday evening, a 12-year-old girl, resident of a childhood home, who wanted to throw herself into the void in La Trinité, in the Alpes-Maritimes, tells Nice-Matin.
The gendarmerie patrol had been called to the scene after the report of a witness who had seen the young girl on the roof of the home.
One of the gendarmes of the patrol then climbed the facade of the home from the resident’s room to join her on the roof.
A girl victim of violence
He then engaged in dialogue for about twenty minutes. The non-commissioned officer had already met the young girl and knew that she had been the victim of violence.
Suddenly, the young girl, frightened by an outside noise, started running to jump into the void. The gendarme immediately reacted by catching her in extremis by the wrist.
Firefighters then attended to the victim. She was hospitalized.