Overview
- The floor of a fifth-floor flat at 34 bis rue Amelot gave way just after midnight during a gathering of roughly 50 people.
- Fifteen people were injured, including one guest resuscitated after cardiorespiratory arrest who remains in critical condition.
- Paris firefighters say the collapse was structural rather than a gas incident, with about 30 square meters of flooring dropping onto the apartment below.
- A police-prefecture architect says rainwater infiltration from the balcony likely degraded wooden elements and precipitated the failure.
- Around 145 firefighters stabilized the site and judged the building’s overall structure intact, nearby residents returned overnight, and prosecutors opened an investigation led by the 11th-arrondissement police.