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While his family had called emergency services several times to report the deterioration of his state of health, Israel, a young 13-year-old teenager, suffered a cardio-respiratory arrest before the arrival of emergency services, Monday evening in Bourges.
An entire city, an entire college, an entire Football club has been in mourning since the start of the week. Monday evening, young Israel Tambu Kipepe, aged only 13, tragically lost his life following a cardio-respiratory arrest when his family had called 15 twice. On the spot, emergency services were unable to bring him back to life.
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According to the elements and testimonies collected by Le Parisien, the teenager's family “called the firefighters around 9 p.m.” on the evening of October 28, when Israel was having “trouble breathing” according to the father. A young footballer at Bourges FC, the boy had been bedridden at home for several days, very affected by an “intense football course” which had forced him to go to the hospital, where he came out with “a splint on his arm where he had pain and another on the leg.
“I would like to know the circumstances…”
“Less than an hour later, Samu-Centre 15 received a new call from the family testifying to the rapid deterioration of the child's state of health” detailed the Jacques-Coeur Hospital Center in a press release. In fact, the father then noticed that his son was no longer moving. Despite the rapid intervention of emergency services, the teenager did not survive. “I would like to know the circumstances which led my child to death” logically confided the father to the Parisianwhile legal proceedings were launched to determine the causes of death.
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“To honor his memory, all matches this weekend played by Bourges FC will be dedicated to Israel Tambu Kipepe, his family, his teammates, as well as all those who were lucky enough to know him. players will enter the field wearing a special t-shirt in tribute to him, a symbol of our solidarity and our unwavering support during this difficult period,” the Bourges FC club indicated on its social networks on Wednesday. “Spending 4 years at our side, then with the Portuguese of Bourges and finally a player of Bourges FC, Israel will always have given his most beautiful face… That of a polite, well-bred, kind and gentle child” indicated for his part the ES Moulon.
