Two men rescued a retiree who had fallen on the metro tracks at La Motte-Picquet Grenelle station. Anne-Laure, doctor who provided first aid to the victim, would like to find them so that they can be thanked.
A wanted notice for an act of bravery. Anne-Laure, doctor in the cardiovascular surgery department of the Georges-Pompidou hospital, launches a call for witnesses in the columns of Le Parisien to find two men who came to the aid of a retiree in the Paris metro, almost two years ago weeks.
While trying to put his bag back on his back, he fell on the tracks of line 8 at La Motte-Picquet Grenelle station. Alerted by the cries of a woman and the crowd forming on the platform, Anne-Laure approached the scene to try to help the victim.
A dangerous rescue
For the forty-year-old, it was difficult for her to intervene. “It seemed high to me. I thought of my children, of the man I adore… I thought very rationally and told myself that once I got down on the tracks, I would be unable to hoist the victim up. He had a fairly imposing build,” she confided to the Ile-de-France daily.
But two men went down to the tracks and brought the pensioner, still stunned, back onto the platform. During the intervention of the two courageous users, the other travelers feared the arrival of the metro.
“The seconds seemed very long to us… I yelled at them to come back quickly,” says Laure.
The risk-taking was very important for the two men since, as an RATP agent explained to Anne-Laure, one of the rails of the track is electrified at 750 volts. Once the retiree was brought to safety, the doctor quickly assessed his injuries. The man suffered a head wound and spinal trauma and was transferred to Georges-Pompidou hospital.
Anne-Laure praises the attitude of the people present that day, who were “genial and caring” according to her.
“These two men are true heroes”
During her exchange with the emergency services, the forty-year-old wanted to point out the benefactors of the day. But they “had left, disappeared in the crowd,” she explains to Le Parisien.
“They will not open the 8 p.m. news and yet, these two men are real heroes. I only did my job as a doctor by giving the first aid,” she continues.
Anne-Laure would like the attitude of the two men to be praised. She was able to get news of the victim, who “was able to walk again a few days ago” according to her.
In order to avoid accidents like this, the RATP calls on users to be vigilant, by regularly passing sound messages to remind them of several basic rules: stay away from the edge of the platforms, avoid getting off or on after the sound signal for closing doors… In mid-September, a person died at Stalingrad station after being hit by a metro following a fall between two trains.
If a person falls on the track, the action to follow is to go as quickly as possible to the emergency terminals present on all platforms. These are indicated by a yellow “Alarm” sign and allow you to contact an RATP agent or to cut power to the tracks by activating a handle.
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