A 15 -year -old apprentice mason killed on a site near Nice – Liberation
This Sunday, May 4, at the Pierre-Jaboulet de Carros stadium, in the Nice hinterland, his friends from the football club paid tribute to him. Two days earlier, his face was displayed as large in the enclosure of the Allianz Riviera during the OGC Nice match, the club he supported. In the same momentum of amazement.
Lorenzo Menardi, an apprentice mason of 15, died on Wednesday on a site in Saint-Martin-du-Var (Alpes-Maritimes), « Striped by a site of shoveler type », According to information from Var-Matin. The teenager, a student in a masonry CFA in Antibes, had entered the end of 2024 in apprenticeship in a public works company belonging to a cousin of his father. « Little lessons, no homework … This system suited him well. He had good grades. And he loved going to the site. He worked very well, they were very happy with him ”, described his mother to the regional daily.
« No parent should have such pain, and I cannot measure the pain that is theirsreacted the mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, after the announcement of the death of the adolescent. I send them all my support in this pain so painful. ”
The prosecution has opened an investigation for manslaughter, entrusted to the Nice research brigade and the labor inspectorate. At this point, there was no police custody, said with Var-Matin The deputy prosecutor of the Republic of Nice, Sabine Neale. Still according to our colleagues, the young driver of the site machine, in shock, had not yet been heard.
In 2023, Health Insurance identified more than 700,000 work accidents in France, having caused the death of 759 people – 21 more than in 2022. In addition, there are travel accidents (332 deaths) and deaths linked to occupational diseases (196).
In a country where there are many dead at work, the construction sector is most affected by serious accidents. « On average, there is Two deaths at work per day worked and in construction, it’s one per day, explained in March 2024 to Release Caroline Dilly ‚Co -founder of the collective » Families: Stop death at work « . But very often these are the dead that nobody talks about, except when they are big accidents, on major sites managed by large groups. ”
