The 84-year-old man died after nine hours of agony in the heart of Paris, in the absence of any help.
A news item that saddens both for the tragic end of the victim, and what she says about our society. On the night of Wednesday to Thursday last January 20, an 84-year-old man died in the middle of the street after nine hours of agony, following an ordinary fall. No passers-by helped the old man.
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It was journalist and musician Michel Mompontet who reported the death of his friend, artist René Robert, a Franco-Swiss photographer who became known for his work on flamenco. On the evening of Wednesday January 19, the octogenarian fell while he was moving near his home rue de Turbigo. Victim of a blackout, he then spent the next nine hours lying on the ground, without anyone coming to help him.
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It took until 6:30 a.m. for the firefighters, finally warned by a passer-by, a homeless person, to arrive on the scene and take care of the victim.lying on the ground, with head trauma and blood“. In a state of advanced hypothermia, he was later pronounced dead at Cochin hospital.
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“Am I 100% sure that if I had been confronted with this scene, I would have stopped? I’ve never turned away from a lying homeless? […] we look away. What this tragic end of life says is a totally hideous thing about our behavior and our solidarity with others.“Commented Michel Mompontet in a moving column on Francetvinfo.
“I would like so much that the sdf, who was the only one to save humanity, even if it was too late, we know who he is“, he concluded.
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