Perpignan: high-risk operation to evacuate a 300 kg man

Blocked for years in his house in Perpignan, a man of around 300 kg is on Tuesday December 1 being evacuated in a very delicate operation where his life is at stake, AFP journalists noted.

For this “

” according to his lawyer Jean Codognès, a classic evacuation by the stairs was impossible, Alain Panabière, 53, who lives on the floor in an unsanitary house, unable to pass the door of his room.

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After initial consolidation work on the two-storey house located in a district with narrow streets in the center of the Catalan city (Pyrénées-Orientales), a sanitary cordon was installed Tuesday morning.

More than 50 people are also mobilized, including police, firefighters and medical teams, said the prefecture.

To extract it, part of the facade will be destroyed at the level of the first floor.

The man will then be moved horizontally to a gondola suspended from a crane, which will drop him off at street level, where an ambulance awaits him.

Alain Panabière will initially be taken to the Montpellier University Hospital for a "

" of his state of health, before his transfer a few weeks later to a rehabilitation center, according to the head of the Endocrinology-Diabetology-Nutrition department, Antoine Avignon .

Me Codognès had sent a letter to the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin at the end of October asking him for urgent intervention.

A few days later, his client and the National League Against Obesity had filed a complaint against X for "

" and "

".