A newborn baby died after an American tourist threw the infant out of a hotel window moments after giving birth, local police report.
The 18-year-old mother allegedly threw her baby from the second floor of an Ibis Style hotel ‘with the umbilical cord’, authorities said.
Emergency services took the baby to the Robert-Debre hospital after witnesses reported the harrowing scenes around 6am this morning.
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.
File photo. The American tourist was said to have thrown the baby from a hotel window in Paris
