This 19-year-old young man, suffering from a heart condition, died after a heart attack that occurred during a baccalaureate specialty test at his establishment in Lille. “Following the death of a student from the Gaston-Berger high school in Lille, I seized the general inspection of an administrative investigation in order to clarify the conditions of his care before the arrival of help”, wrote Pap Ndiaye in a tweet.
A process launched via “a referral to the general inspectorate to assess the terms of care for this student before the arrival of help and the management of the crisis situation within the establishment”, specifies a press release Ministry of Education press release. “The results are expected within a month,” he adds.
Pap Ndiaye will visit the establishment next Monday
Pap Ndiaye “made a point of exchanging yesterday (Wednesday) with the family of the student in order to present his condolences to him, which he wishes to renew today to the whole of the educational community”. “He will go Monday, March 27 afternoon to the establishment”, is it written in this press release.
The prosecutor of the Republic of Lille Carole Etienne announced to AFP that she had “staged an investigation (…) in search of the causes of the death of the student who died during the baccalaureate exams at the Gaston-Berger high school in order to circumscribe very precisely the causes and circumstances of death”.
The student wore a pacemaker
The student, educated at the Gaston-Berger high school in the final class of STMG (Sciences and technologies of management and management), was composing at his table in the afternoon, with some 80 other high school students, when he collapsed, according to the rectorate. The emergency services were contacted “directly” and the teenager “immediately placed in a lateral safety position”, assured the same source to AFP.
He was then transferred to the Lille University Hospital where he died a few hours later, according to the association “Un enfant, ma guerre”, helping sick children, who had followed him since the age of 3. According to the association, the student had heart problems and was wearing a pacemaker.