French Alps avalanche: three dead, including two students.

Avalanche aux Deux-Alpes : ouverture d’une information judiciaire pour homicide involontaire (préfet de l’Isère). Judicial information procedure opened for involuntary homicide.

par Rédaction de France Info mercredi 13 janvier 2016 22:35

Le procureur de la République de Grenoble a annoncé l’ouverture d’une information judiciaire pour homicide involontaire, après l’avalanche aux Deux-Alpes, déclare mercredi soir sur France Info Jean-Paul Bonnetain, préfet de l’Isère.

La piste était bien fermée et la signalétique bien en place. “Tous les filets étaient bien posés, la signalétique était la bonne. Les élèves ne devaient pas se trouver là.”

The piste was closed and signals were in place. “All nets were well secured. The students were not supposed to be found there”.

Les Deux-Alpes était “en alerte avalanche de niveau 3 sur 5 à partir de 16h.”

The Deux-Alpes were “on avalanche alert level 3 out of 5 from 16h00”.

La prévision affichée en station prévenait “qu’à partir de 2100 mètres le passage de skieurs pouvait déclencher une avalanche.” L’accident s’est produit à 2400 mètres.

Station predictions are “that from 2,100 mtrs the passage of skiers could cause an avalanche”. The avalanche was produced at 2,400 mtrs.  

“Demain, nous sommes encore en niveau 4”, insiste le préfet.

“Tomorrow we will again be at alert level 4” insisted the prefect.

Avalanche aux Deux-Alpes : trois morts, dont deux collégiens

par Rédaction de France Info mercredi 13 janvier 2016 17:35

L’avalanche aux Deux Alpes. © Radio France/Gérard Fourgeaud

Une avalanche s’est produite peu avant 16h00 sur une piste noire fermée et non damée du domaine des Deux-Alpes, empruntée par un groupe d’une dizaine de skieurs. Deux collégiens et un skieur ukrainien sont décédés.

An avalanche occurred a little before 16h00 on a closed black slope of loose snow on the Deux-Alpes domaine, taken by a group of about ten skiers. Two secondary school students and a Ukranian died.

Une avalanche aux Deux-Alpes (Isère) a fait au moins trois morts ce mercredi après-midi. Deux des victimes sont des collégiens qui faisaient partie d’un groupe d’une dizaine de personnes. La troisième est un skieur ukrainien qui ne faisait pas partie du même groupe. Le directeur de cabinet du préfet de l’Isère interrogé par France Info, Alexander Grimaud, précise que “le bilan est non stabilisé. Deux élèves sont décédés et une tierce personne figure également parmi les victimes. Tous les élèves du collège ont été identifiés et retrouvés.”  Les recherches se poursuivent pour savoir si d’autres skieurs ont emprunté la piste au moment de l’avalanche. Une centaine de pisteurs et moniteurs sont mobilisés.

An avalanche in Deux-Alpes in the Isere has left three dead this afternoon. Two of the victims were secondary school students who were part of a group of about ten people. The third is a Ukranian skier who was not part of the same group. The director of the office of the prefect of Isere police, Alexander Grimaud, in an interview with France Info explained that “the outcome is not yet established. Two students died and a third person is among the dead. All the students were identified and found”. The investigators are attempting to discover if other skiers were taking that slope at the time of the avalanche. A hundred skiers and instructors were mobilised.  

La préfecture précise encore que les éleves vont être rapatriés à Lyon et pris en charge psychologiquement. “On n’était pas hors piste, mais la piste était fermée. On ne sait pas si la signalisation était en place ou non pour indiquer la fermeture. Les recherches continuent pour le moment tant que nous ne serons pas certains qu’il n’y a plus personne sous la neige.” Le groupe de skieur était constitué d’une dizaine d’élèves du collège-lycée Antoine de Saint-Exupéry de Lyon. Tous étaient en cursus scolaire “sport étude”, expérimentés, avec un très bon niveau.  Selon la station des Deux Alpes, l’avalanche s’est déclenchée à 15h41 “pour des raisons inconnues sur un secteur fermé du domaine skiable” où évoluait “un groupe de personnes”. Les premiers secours sont arrivés sur place à 15h46. “Nos pensées vont ce soir aux familles des victimes”, affirme le communiqué.

The police chief specified that the students are going to be repatriated to Lyon and treated psychologically. “It was not an out of bounds piste, but it was closed. We don’t know yet if the signage indicating closure was in place. The investigators are continuing to find out for certain that are no other people under the snow”. The group of skiers were made up of some ten students from the  school Antoine de Saint-Exupéry of Lyon. All were following an advanced course in experimental “sports studies”. According to the ski station in Deux-Alpes, the avalanche let go at 15h41 “for reasons yet unknown on the closed sector of the on ski domaine” or the movement “of the group of people”. The first safety rescuers arrived at 15h46. “Our thoughts this evening are with the families of the victims”, affirmed the communiqué. 

Une cellule de crise a été ouverte au rectorat de Lyon : Emergency telephone line: 

This is the third avalanche in the /French Alps in the last week, in which three deaths were recorded.

 

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