Father sues after daughter spends four days stuck in lift

0 Comments | AFP, December, 2006

PARIS (AFP) — French police were questioning a building supervisor in a Paris suburb to find out how a 19-year-old woman who got stuck in a lift was not found for four days. Safiatou Diallo had stepped out of her family's apartment in a residential block in Saint Denis on December 19 to buy some bread.

The elevator she took stopped between the first and second floors. Her panicked father started a search for her and immediately suspected the stuck lift. "I saw our lift was broken and I right away thought she was stuck inside," Souleymane Diallo told Le Parisien newspaper. But the building supervisor and an elevator technician asked to check the lift reported back that it was empty, prompting the family to take their search farther afield. Safiatou Diallo ended up spending...