The trial took place in February 2025. Crest after a prohibited veneer, Mathias delivers an fierce fight to break the omerta in the world of rugby and to evolve the look at handicap. Poignant video testimony!
There are moments in life when everything changes in a fraction of a second. A shock. This one was literally. On December 14, 2022, during an official school rugby tournament, Mathias Dantin was placed at the reception, a normally prohibited gesture. He falls. Its cervicals give in. Verdict: incomplete tetrap. He was then 16 years old. A destiny that is reminiscent of Tony Moggio, author of a book on the subject (Quadriplegic after a rugby accident, his book reassures).
A long acceptance course
There follows a long tunnel of resuscitation, hospitalizations and rehabilitation. He learns to breathe with assistance, to speak again, to mobilize what he can from his body.
He now lives with H24 support, but refuses resignation. Despite an almost total loss of physical autonomy, Mathias, now 19 years old, shows that a built life project remains possible: studies, integration into the world of business sport, new projects … It nevertheless points to the difficulty of projecting itself in the long term when dependence structures daily life.
Learn to live differently
No way to give in, Mathias decides to rebuild himself. To learn to live differently. To testify. He confides in a video interview – to find on Handicap.live and the social networks of Handicap.fr –and tells us after, the invisible fights, the rage to continue to exist.
-A trial was held at the Tarbes judicial court in February 2025, sentenced the author of the nine -month -in -prison place to be suspended, a decision for which he appealed.
Supervise this “Collective combat sport”
For his part, Mathias continues to speak on social networks to further secure rugby and ask for more management. He insists on the sometimes underestimated dangerousness of this “Collective combat sport” And calls for increased responsibility, denouncing institutional silence around dangerous behavior. In the same way, he does not hesitate to recall the values of this « sport passion » : mutual aid, inclusion, self -gift. Positive philosophy and faith also help him to go through his moments of doubt: “Life is beautiful, despite everything, do not wait to be impacted to become aware of it.”
© Mathias Dantin
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