Antoine de Maximy urgently repatriated: the animator seriously injured during a filming in Côte d’Ivoire

Who has never dreamed of traveling in Business class? Most certainly not Antoine de Maximy who paid for a direct return to Paris from Abidjan, capital of the Ivory Coast, after a terrible accident. The host of I will go to sleep at home on RMC Découverte was filming a few hours earlier in a small Ivorian village to visit plantations. Camera in hand, de Maximy did not see but felt his right leg slip while the left remained stuck in the roots. Guaranteed shock! And the pain?

The adventurer does not feel much at first: “ Before wondering where I was hurting, I first thought of filming the scene. The guys in the village started putting ointment on me, massaging me and twisting my ankle all over the place. Antoine de Maximy is in no condition to continue on his way. However, he goes to the neighboring village by motorbike and pays a visit to the local dispensary to make sure that everything is in place. The health report is sufficiently alarming to rush a doctor from Europe-Assistance to the scene, himself contacted by the Bonne Pioche Television production.

Antoine de Maximy, injured but in good hands

The radiological examination leaves no more doubt. ” I wanted to continue. But I was limping badly “, reports Antoine de Maximy. ” We opted for repatriation. It could have become necrotic or reattached crookedly. The facilitator left Côte d’Ivoire with more beautiful images in mind than in his camera. Arrived in France, we immediately take care of putting screws and a plate in the leg. The globetrotter should have some for a month and a half. ” For the moment, I move around on a crutch with a walking boot or on a wheeled office chair at home. I also took the scooter back. “An incident which is not likely to make him lose morale, when we know that he had tested positive for Covid-19 before embarking for Abidjan.

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