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Workers did not see child in back of car as they tried to clear vehicles disrupting traffic
POLICE have started an investigation after tow-truck lifted a badly-parked car – with a three-week old baby inside.
The incident happened outside an infant school in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, not far from the Trocadero, when the car was left parked on a cycle lane.
Police tow trucks had been lifting several vehicles disrupting traffic on the busy Rue Descamps at 8.30 and when the mother came out of the school she found hers had also been taken away.
Workers had not seen the baby asleep in the back of the car as the windows were tinted.
The mother was given a lift by another mother and was able to follow the tow-truck to the fourrière pound and be reunited with the baby.
Officials from Paris Préfecture de Police said they had started an inquiry and would question staff from the pound.
Although they said it was an “exceptional†event, a similar incident happened just an hour later in the nearby 17th arrondissement when a car was lifted with a nine-year-old boy inside. He woke up when workers started to lift the car and managed get their attention.