A miracle at the very least. "You are risen!" , cried the children of Jean-Luc Reitzer, hugging their father after he left the hospital. At 68, the deputy LR of the Haut-Rhin, one of the three oldest elected members of the Palais Bourbon, was the first parliamentarian suffering from coronavirus.
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A shock for his colleagues. Hospitalized on March 4, he did not return until May 15 in Altkirch, in the south of Alsace. He had been the second patient placed in an artificial coma at the Émile-Muller hospital in Mulhouse, all the while ignoring the ravages of the epidemic in the department. Which resulted in 775 deaths since March 1, and 568 patients still hospitalized…
This Friday, Jean-Luc Reitzer is waiting at the bottom of the stairs of the family home, smiling, moving normally, emaciated - he lost twenty-two kilos during his coma. Her voice has not changed. Always the same energy. The one that allowed this Gaullist militant since his adolescence to win multiple battles
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