One rescued a choking child, the other appeared in an Oscar-winning documentary when the third went on a hunger strike to protest the eviction of his undocumented employee.
All of them have marked the news with their incredible destiny.
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The bus driver saves a baby
Magali is a bus driver at RATP.
On February 20, 2019, she rescues a choking baby in a stroller.
Two years after her gesture of bravery, when it comes to reaping its laurels, Magali has not shied away from her modesty. “I'm sure everyone would have reacted the same. You have to reach out at such times. The moment of which this bus driver speaks, on line 52 in Paris, dates back to February 2019. That day, the RATP employee stopped at a traffic light. In front of her bus, crosses a woman with a child in a stroller. But something is wrong: "I see the about 1.5 year old baby in the stroller has rolling eyes and is dull in color as if he is choking. . "
The driver reacts very quickly: she gets off her bus and goes straight towards the ailing girl.
"I untie the little girl, I put my fingers in her mouth.
I'm trying to give him a heart massage.
But his attempts at resuscitation were in vain.
Then Magali runs with the child in her arms to a nearby laboratory.
There, the girl is taken care of.
She will be saved by the firefighters.
For her heroic reaction and her courage, the bus driver was rewarded in the fall of 2021 by the Parisian transport company.
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and the heroic deeds accomplished by other Magali colleagues
She finds her crush on the metro
“I was not the only one to believe it, you also believed in it. You have, without knowing me, wanted to help me in a story in which you identify yourself. This wonderful mutual aid allowed me to find him. This man is just as great as you are. A kind, upright and gentle man. Despite the apparent madness of my approach, he still decided to send me a message and not a psych check. Miracle? "In March 2021, in the Paris metro, a young man with light eyes catches the eye of Emilie, a Parisian student. The young woman, who can not bring herself to let this opportunity pass, decides to launch an appeal on social networks and to put up posters in the street to find the young man who was reading "L'Existentialisme est un humanisme" by Jean- Paul Sartre in a line 8 train. A call that we relayed.
A few days later, the young man recognizes himself and contacts Émilie.
But it's a cold shower: the handsome stranger has been in a relationship for eight months.
The Parisian student however does not let down.
"I did not find a lover thanks to this poster, I found much more than that," she estimates.
I found a Philia (loving) so strong towards humans.
"
The miraculous birth
With Covid, Jessica gave birth in an emergency.
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Giving birth in August and not discovering your baby until October.
This is what Jessica, 27, lived through, who gave life while suffering from Covid-19, she fought against death.
"We are miraculous," she confided to our journalist when they met in December in Isère, where the family is now reunited after several months of hell.
The first symptoms arrive in July. A few weeks later, the young pregnant woman was urgently admitted to hospital: she was struggling to breathe, her life was in danger, she had to give birth. “There, I felt that I was being put betadine on my stomach, I said:
Wait, don't cut it, I'm still awake!
Then the black hole. As soon as he was born, Thibault was placed on oxygen. Jessica wakes up a few minutes the next day before falling into a coma.
"Thank you, thank you, you're alive," her husband cries on September 21, when she opens her eyes again, plugged in from all sides, in her hospital room.
It is only in mid-October that the young mother is authorized to find her eldest son and to meet Thibault, her infant of two and a half months, whom she does not yet know.
After a few days of adaptation, the two ended up taming each other: “There, I felt like his mother.
He was smiling at me like he knew who I was.
"
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She meets the woman who saved her husband's life
Lori (left) and Marion at Parc Monceau.
(LP / Céline Carez)
“You saved my husband's life,” we could read on this poster affixed in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. A man went into cardiac arrest in Parc Monceau. Thanks to someone who gave him cardiac massage, he survived and will have little after-effects. Thank you from all of our family. Last May, Lori, an American journalist based in Paris, searches for the young woman who saved the life of her husband, Peter. Once again, social networks get involved and provide a sounding board for the call.
The rescuer is actually Marion, a reserve firefighter who was participating in gym training in Parc Monceau that day.
“I saw a man lying on a bench, in PLS.
I approached, ”she recalls.
Reservist for two years, Marion undertook a cardiac massage: “I did a lot in intervention as a reservist firefighter for more than two years.
I asked for the defibrillator from the park to be brought to me.
(…) The pulse has returned.
The firefighters have arrived.
Marion accompanies Peter to the ambulance.
The latter does not suffer from any after-effects.
A few days later, Marion and Lori meet at Parc Monceau.
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our story of their reunion
The guardian angel flies to the aid of the homeless
Thanks to a Facebook group created by Danya, Alex was able to get off the streets and find a job.
(LP / Marie Briand-Locu)
It all started with a simple meal, left by Danya at Alex, in the small garage box in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine).
Then another meal, and a third.
Finally, the young woman decides to start a Facebook group for this 50-year-old of Romanian origin who has been living on the streets for three years.
In three weeks, the solidarity of traders and residents then sets in motion, hands are stretched out.
And on May 3, Alex ended up leaving the street and finding an employer who also housed him.
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Alex and Danya's story
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The first baby born from a uterus transplant in France
For the first time in France, a baby was born after a uterus transplant.
Suffering from a congenital disease, Rokitansky syndrome, which affects one in 4,500 women, Deborah could not give birth.
The uterus transplant took place in 2019 at the Foch hospital in Suresnes (Hauts-de-Seine).
His donor?
Deborah's own mother.
A little over a year later, the young woman welcomes an embryo fertilized in vitro.
Pregnancy takes and in February 2021, little Misha is born: a baby of 42 cm and 1.8 kg.
"We put our whole life aside to be 100% in this project, then confided the father of Misha in Paris.
Now a new adventure begins.
"
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the confidences of Pierre, the father of Misha
, after the birth of his daughter
The motorcycle taxi driver named "ambassador of integrity"
Emmanuel Tuloe alongside George Weah.
(PRESIDENCY OF LIBERIA)
Its history has toured Liberia and then the world.
Last October, Emmanuel Tuloe, motorcycle taxi driver, fell during his tour on a plastic bag containing 50,000 dollars.
The next day, the young man hears a businesswoman making a call on the radio: you absolutely have to help her find this lost money, she has to pay a supplier.
Against all expectations and to the surprise of his friends, the young driver contacted the businesswoman and returned her bag.
"My friends told me that I was very stupid and that I will never get rich in my life," laughs Emmanuel Tuloe.
My parents didn't teach me how to steal, so I decided to give back the money that doesn't belong to me.
"
Invited by the president of Liberia, former football star George Weah, to the presidential palace, Emmanuel Tuloe received an award of 10,000 dollars (around 8,600 euros) and a scholarship up to master's level.
George Weah also gave him a monthly salary of 500 dollars (430 euros).
The beautiful story of Migouel Alfarela in Ligue 2
Trained in Le Havre, the young man ended up giving up football, disappointed by the lack of opportunities despite his good statistics and forced to find a job to support his family. “I was 20 years old, a child to feed, I had to make this choice,” explains football player Migouel Alfarela. I had given up on football. Le Havre is my city, my club. The people of the HAC almost saw me grow up more than my own parents… My family did not understand that I wanted to quit but no club had called me, even in National 2. However, I had stats, 12 goals with the Reserve. "
So for six months, the young man goes through the days in the building. He is pouring concrete, slabs… “It was hard physically and mentally, it was complicated. But it forged me. When you have to work in the cold, the rain, you understand what real life is like, he tells us. After what I experienced, I now measure my luck. We are privileged to be paid just to touch the ball. I would never complain again. “Because Migouel Alfarela has found his way back to the lawns. Two and a half years later and thanks to a good season in National (seven goals and seven assists), he found himself last May in the sights of several L2 clubs, including Paris FC. “I thought about it well and I chose Paris FC because it is a top L2 club. "
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the beautiful story of Migouel Alfarela
, from the building to the professional contract with Paris FC
La Pataterie pays one euro per dish to the Restos du Cœur
This is the story of a tweet.
That of an American on vacation in France.
Like any tourist, Steve Olson discovers French gems, its museums, its small bistros and… its restaurant chains.
One evening in September, he seated himself in front of a plate of potatoes from the Pataterie, this chain which bases its menu on starch.
And the American is ecstatic.
To the point that he tweets his pleasure and causes a huge wave of responses.
From the most condescending to the most exciting.
A few days later, galvanized by his publicity stunt and his new notoriety, Steve Olson launched an appeal for donations for the Restos du Cœur.
“I have just donated 100 euros to the Restos du Cœur.
Who is following me?
He wrote on Twitter.
The message is relayed more than 3000 times.
While Pataterie is creating a new recipe for "American-style baked apple, with a base of shredded beef, chili and cheddar".
Until the All Saints' Day holidays, says Sébastien de Laporte, CEO of the Pataterie restaurant chain, each time this dish was sold, one euro was donated to the Restos du Cœur.
The sign also delivered five tons of potatoes to the antenna of the association of Lens in the Pas-de-Calais.
Colette, 93, Oscar star
Colette Marin-Catherine is the main protagonist of an Oscar-winning documentary.
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It is ultimately "almost" she who won the Oscar for best documentary short.
Colette Marin-Catherine, a 92-year-old retiree from Caen, is the main protagonist of an Oscar-nominated documentary.
Called “Colette”, this film directed by the American Anthony Giacchino tells the story of his brother, Jean-Pierre, who died in deportation in 1945.
Arrested with a group of resistance fighters, his brother had been deported to the Dora concentration camp in Germany.
Jean-Pierre "died of exhaustion" there after having worked, like thousands of other prisoners, in the underground passages of the camp.
While he died in March 1945, his family was not notified until the end of the war.
Seventy years later, Colette left in the footsteps of her brother, accompanied by the American director.
“This trip brought me back to 1943,” she explains to the Parisian.
It was stressful.
Before leaving, I had said that I would not be the same when crossing the German border.
I thought I would be myself again when I came back, but no.
There were difficult times.
"
His miscarriage of justice corrected, he gets on the boards
Youssef Zouini was the victim of a miscarriage of justice.
(LP / Philippe Lavieille)
From the bars of a cell to the boards of the theaters.
In 2007, the Nantes resident Youssef Zouini was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the robbery and kidnapping of supermarket employees.
A crime he had not committed.
To forget his situation, the young man enrolled in a theater workshop at the penitentiary.
“On stage, I imagined a setting and I forgot my condition as a prisoner, I no longer saw a prison guard, no more bars…”, he confided to our journalist.
After two years in a Rennes detention center, he was finally acquitted by the Assize Court of Appeal.
On his release from prison, the beginner actor, who had made a promise to become a professional actor, began training with the prestigious Cours Florent, whose management offered him tuition fees.
A few years later, Youssef Zouini went through the castings and won the jackpot: the filmmaker Olivier Marchal (“36, Quai des Orfèvres”, “Les Rivières pourpres”) hired him for his new thriller “Overdose”.
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the incredible journey of Youssef Zouini
The undocumented baker saved by his boss
This boss has started a hunger strike to protest against the threat of expulsion of his apprentice baker, Laye Fodé Traoré, who entered France illegally.
When he arrived at the age of 16 in this bakery in downtown Besançon (Doubs), Laye received an eviction notice when he was 18.
“He's a silent one.
He works and learns, he has already understood the essentials of the job.
This kid, he speaks better French than me!
“, Defended the one who had to be hospitalized because of his hunger strike.
The prefecture of Haute-Saône, where Laye is domiciled, finally decided to regularize him, emphasizing “his path of integration until then exemplary” and “his prospects for professional integration”, namely a complete training with the baker. bisontin, who made a commitment to hire him quickly.