A father failed and his four-year-old son was poorly injured in France after a bouncy castle in which they were playing at a water demesne was blown overhead by high winds, prosecutors said Monday.
The 35-year-old man had been taken to sanitarium with his child after the accident on Sunday at the water demesne in Saint- Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume in France’s southern Var region, monstrously popular with excursionists in the summer. He failed latterly that day.
The structure, some 20 metres (65 bases) long, lifted 50 metres off the ground at the Wonderland Waterpark, with both victims trapped outside, the prosecutor for the near city of Draguignan said in a statement.
The son’s life remains in peril, the prosecutor’s office added. It said the bouncy castle had taken off due to” strong gusts of wind” that were buffeting the area at the time after a spell of hot rainfall.
An disquisition has been opened into involuntary homicide.
Draguignan prosecutor Guy Bouchet told AFP that the operation of the demesne had taken the decision to suspend the bouncy castle exertion due to the rainfall at the very moment the accident happed.
“How can a water demesne that had been accepted on the external home to bring joy and happiness to children be converted into a machine of death that strikes down an entire family?” the mayor Alain Decanis wrote on Facebook.
He pledged the disquisition opened by prosecutors would give answers. The child, like her father, had to be resuscitated after suffering cardiac arrest.
