Viviane Lambert, one year after the death of her son: "I am in depression"

"We deleted my son, we deleted him! A year to the day after the death of Vincent Lambert, this young man who has been in a vegetative state since 2008, his mother Viviane Lambert shares his pain still present at the microphone of France Info this Saturday, July 11, 2020.

“We are deeply marked. Me, I am in depression and you know, our health fell very low, entrusts the one who had fought a long time, with her husband, so that their son is kept alive.

Viviane Lambert still does not accept the conditions under which Vincent Lambert ended up dying, following the interruption (for the third time) of hydration and food a week earlier. "We saw our son dying during these many days, we saw him moaning, we saw him suffocate and that is abominable", she is moved.

Parents' appeal reviewed on September 11

"He was not at the end of his life! He was not brain dead, my son! No, I will never accept the killing of my child. […] Even if there was no improvement, we don't throw people like a Kleenex! », She says again.

VIDEO. Viviane Lambert: “My son Vincent is not at the end of his life! "

While part of the family of Vincent Lambert, including one of his nephews, had pleaded to let him die, "those who say that we are not united, that they come, I will show them our photo albums . And God knows we have them, ”defends Viviane Lambert. While saying "ready to forgive". On one condition: “We must be asked for forgiveness too. "

Judicially, the “Vincent Lambert case” is not over. Because his two parents, Catholics close to the fundamentalists, had filed an appeal following the release in January 2020 of his doctor, whom they were prosecuting for "non-assistance in danger". This appeal will be examined on September 11 by the Court of Appeal of Reims, indicated this Thursday the lawyer general. Furthermore, a file submitted to the UN Human Rights Committee by the parents' lawyers has yet to be studied.