2023-06-14 20:06:00
“We offer all our apologies and our deepest regrets for this event and the consequences it may have had. RATP CEO [Jean Castex, ndlr] has requested an internal investigation to determine the exact causes of this rare incident,” the spokeswoman said.
This incident, described as “exceptional” by the RATP, followed a “damage on a train” around 6:20 p.m. which “disrupted the entire network between Porte d’Orléans and Montparnasse”.
The blockage of the trains (or shuttles in the jargon of the RATP) in the tunnel forced “travellers to wait” inside “before they can be evacuated”, according to the RATP.
The spokeswoman was unable to provide an estimate of the number of passengers affected.
“Really borderline”
On the social network Twitter, photos and videos show passengers suffering from the heat in crowded trains, as well as a line of passengers evacuating along the tracks.
Françoise Rouveyrolles, 67, was going to the theater with her husband when she too found herself trapped in a train approaching the Odéon station.
“In the train, there were people who were starting to feel bad, it was really borderline… Two, three people started to get angry, people were constantly activating the alarm sign”, a- she reported, while generally evoking “an atmosphere of wisdom”.
At the time of the evacuation, he had to take a small ladder and go up the track, skirting the side of the train.
“There were many of us walking along the track, between the rails and the wall, (…) in single file on stones”, without seeing “much”.
“There was a spontaneous evacuation” of passengers from one of the shuttles, also indicated the spokesperson for the management, according to which the other evacuations took place “under the control of the RATP”.
“The technical teams are hard at work to put the installations back into service and allow the resumption of traffic as soon as possible,” she added.
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