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Michèle, 56, tried to save her daughter’s dog, which fell into a Parisian canal, this Monday, June 3. But the fifty-year-old got sucked into the current of a pumping system and pretended to drown. A young 18-year-old migrant came to his aid.
A walk gone wrong. This Monday, June 3, Michèle almost lost her life in the waters of a canal in Paris reports The Parisian. This Pilates teacher tried to save her daughter’s dog, carried away by the current of the water treatment system, near the Villette basin.
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Held without a leash, the little Mustang, aged 7, jumped back after the barking of another dog. The owner’s mother, in charge of the walk, threw herself into the water to try to recover the animal. Before being sucked in herself. Despite her 10 years of swimming, she found herself on the verge of drowning. “I absolutely did not expect to have this force that pulled me towards the bottom, like a giant vacuum cleaner that pulled me under the slab. I felt that I was going to die,” she testified with our colleagues.
“My friend almost died before my eyes”
The fifty-year-old’s friend, Nathalie, screamed for help, helpless in the face of the scene. “I no longer saw Michèle or the dog. My friend almost died before my eyes.” A waiter from the bar opposite the pool threw a lifebuoy, without Michèle managing to catch it.
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A homeless man, lying in the grass nearby, was awakened by the screams. Nouari, 18, jumped into the water without hesitation. The young migrant swam closer to the buoy. Passers-by helped the waiter pull the rope to get the two stranded people out of the water. “It was difficult with the current, I felt it,” said the young savior, still at Parisian. “Without him, I would have been sucked to death,” replied the survivor. Both escape unscathed, but the psychological aftereffects are very present. “I’m going to have to get help for this trauma,” assured the fifty-year-old.
“Where are the bodies going?”
Unfortunately, the dog could not be saved. She died on her mistress’s 20th birthday. “Where are the bodies going? Mustang’s body hasn’t been found. Is it crushed?” Michèle wonders. At present, she has not yet received a concrete response from the town hall and the water filtration service. She calls for the installation of protection at the basin level, and asks that the situation of Nouari, her hero, be regularized. For the moment, Michèle is considering filing a complaint.
