Captain Antoine Ladner will no doubt long remember his speech on this Sunday. With two colleagues, this CRS of company 48 - based in Puy-de-Dôme and currently on a "security mission" in the northeast of the capital - prevented a 19-year-old girl from ending these days .
A young woman on the edge of emptiness
“During the night, this Sunday, we were at the Porte de la Chapelle, where we have a static surveillance point. In principle to avoid the formation of migrant camps, ”he says. The mission turned into a rescue operation. “At 3:25 a.m., we heard screams coming from the Ibis hotel, located on the other side of the ring road. At first we believed in a fight. It happens in this corner. "
Approaching, the captain immediately realizes that it is something else. A young girl has stepped over the window of her hotel room, on the 2nd floor, and is standing outside the building on a concrete ledge a few inches wide. "She was in pajamas. She was crying a lot and obviously wanted to end her life. "
A perilous rescue
The captain tries in vain to reason with her from the street while a colleague rushes to the bedroom where he is greeted by the girl's partner, in panic, who is carrying a 9-month-old baby in his arms. “My colleague rushed to the window and managed to grab an arm of the girl. I joined him and grabbed the other arm. But, since she was in pajamas, we had no hold. She slipped and found her leg in the void, ”continues the CRS.
It will take the arrival of a third policeman to manage to hoist the suicidal into the bedroom. “It was only afterwards that we learned that she was 5 months pregnant. She explained to us that her mother had chased her from the family apartment in Noisy-le-Sec a week earlier. Since then, she lived with her boyfriend and their first child in this hotel on the edge of the ring road. "
Red roses in the room
The young girl, taken in charge by the firefighters called in the wake, was taken to Bichat hospital. "It's rewarding to make an intervention like this," concludes the captain, who says he was touched by this "little couple" in distress. “It doesn't seem easy for them. But we see that they love each other. In their hotel room, there was a bouquet of red roses, no doubt offered for Valentine's Day, in a plastic bottle cut in half as a vase. "
