A newborn baby died after an American tourist threw the infant out of a hotel window moments after giving birth, according to police.
The 18-year-old mother allegedly threw her baby from the second floor of an Ibis Styles hotel ‘with the umbilical cord’, authorities said.
The Ibis Styles is a three-star budget hotel off Rue de la Croix Saint-Simon. Rooms go for around £80 on average.
Emergency services took the baby to the Robert Debre hospital after witnesses reported the incident at around 6am this morning.
The street was closed for more than five hours after the incident.
The Paris prosecutor’s office told Le Parisien that the child did not survive the fall and succumbed to injuries.
An investigation has been opened for ‘homicide of a minor under 15’, the city’s public prosecutor told the outlet.
The office said that the mother was ‘part of a group of young adults travelling in Europe’.
They said she had also been taken to hospital for an operation. She was taken into custody on site, the office said.
Witnesses were reportedly ‘alerted by screams’ before calling the emergency services, according to Paris Match.
The baby was said to have been taken ‘in absolute emergency and with a life-threatening prognosis’ to the hospital before being declared dead.
