In front of the students of the primary school of Ossen, a small village nestled above Lourdes, Mathias Dantin, who will be 19 years old on December 30, came to talk about his disability. Quadriplegic since December 14, 2022, after having suffered what the courts described, in the summons to the trial which will be held Tuesday in Tarbes, from 1:30 p.m., of “delayed cathedral tackle”he recounts his devastated daily life with a naturalness that commands respect. He shows his folded fingers which no longer obey him and the little hook which allows him to grab his water bottle; he explains that he can no longer relieve himself on his own, that a nurse administers him a suppository every morning – “do you know what a suppository is? » he asks the children – for “force to poop” ; that every three or four hours, day and night, someone must help him “insert a long pipe into his penis” so he can pee; that he can't read a book on his own or pick up his phone if it falls. “Suddenly I found myself in someone else's body, he imagines, I am an adult with the abilities of a baby who must be helped to eat and do his business. »
