By Stéphane Cazaux
Saturday November 9, 2024 at 6:02 p.m. – Updated Saturday November 9, 2024 at 7:47 p.m.
Three young men aged 21 to 27 were transported to hospital during the night from Friday to Saturday, after being taken care of by emergency services in an apartment in the 20th arrondissement of Paris while they were unconscious. The vital prognosis of two of them was then engaged, we learned News17. Their health has since improved.
Emergency services were alerted around 1:30 a.m. by a woman present on the scene. She explained that she had just found her companion and two of his friends unconscious, in their apartment on avenue de la Porte-de-Ménilmontant. The victims – two aged 21, the third aged 27 – were immediately treated by emergency services. Two of the men were taken to Tenon hospital (XXth) in a state of absolute emergency, while the third was evacuated to Lariboisière hospital (Xth) in relative emergency.
Suspicious noise wakes up the partner
Police officers from the Judicial Night Processing Service (STJN) went to the site and carried out the first investigations. The resident told officials that her partner and his friends had decided to spend the evening together, and that she had gone to bed. “She said she heard a suspicious noise which woke her up and got up to check what was happening.”describes a source close to the matter. This is how she discovered her partner and their guests unconscious in the living room, even though they had clearly just consumed a liquid whose exact nature remains to be determined. “It could be liquid cocaine”according to the same source. Analyzes will be carried out.
An investigation has been opened for use, transport, possession and acquisition of narcotics, indicates the Paris prosecutor's office. The 20th arrondissement police station was responsible for the investigations. The three men “would have actually ingested a liquid product without details at this stage on its nature. Blood and toxicological analyzes are underway”specifies the same source, which adds that their lives are no longer in danger this Saturday evening.
