She was in "very critical prognosis" then in "brain death".
Miriam, the 31-year-old young woman of Italian nationality, knocked down on Monday by an electric scooter, quai de la Mégisserie (I), died.
In his entourage, it is stupor and sorrow.
"We are all destroyed," sums up a relative.
There is also anger… The two young women, who knocked down the victim with their scooter did not stop…
The drama took place this Monday at 1 a.m.
The victim, a waitress in a Parisian Italian restaurant, was walking with a friend on the bank tracks, Georges-Pompidou route, at the Pont au Change, along the Île de la Cité, when she was violently struck by the scooter "which was tumbling down at full speed", specifies a relative.
The victim was thrown to the ground.
His head hit the sidewalk.
The two "drivers" continued their journey.
A call for witnesses launched
The divers from the river brigade who were patrolling the Seine, witnesses, jumped from their boat and tried to revive the victim while waiting for help.
Miriam was in cardiopulmonary arrest.
Although her heart started again after 30 minutes of massage, she was then transported in absolute urgency, unconscious to the hospital of Pitié-Salpêtrière (13th century).
"The doctors were very pessimistic", indicates a source familiar with the matter.
This Friday, the Paris prosecutor's office confirmed having opened an investigation into the count of intentional homicide by driver, aggravated by the hit-and-run.
For its part, the judicial treatment of accidents (STJA) service of the police headquarters, to which the Paris prosecutor's office has entrusted the investigation, has launched a call for witnesses to find the two fugitives.
David Belliard asks the two fugitives to surrender
These specialists in traffic offenses, who manage accidents in the capital, have posted a notice along the quays, especially on the water fountains, on the segment of the Pont au Change, where people may have crossed the scooter.
The investigators ask any walkers in the neighborhood, witnesses, to come forward, by contacting the STJA investigators, available 24 hours a day at 01.44.08.62.70.
CCTV images could also provide some answers ... "There were people on the docks that day", hopes a person close to the case.
This absolute drama, against a backdrop of controversy over the dangerousness of electric scooters in Paris, has reacted to elected officials from all sides, Parisians, associations, Internet users on social networks.
This Friday evening, David Belliard, Anne Hidalgo's deputy (EELV) in charge of transport, sent "his most sincere condolences to the relatives of the victim".
The ecologist who insists that “the safety of the most vulnerable users, which are pedestrians, is one of my priorities” asks that “all the light on this accident be shed”, that “the perpetrators of this tragedy be judged”.
And ask the two young girls "to surrender".
The young woman donated her organs
Originally from the region of Capalbio, in Tuscany, Miriam had left Italy to settle in Paris, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés (6th arrondissement) and worked in a small Italian restaurant in the neighborhood, rue Grégoire de Tours (6th arrondissement). ), as a responsible waitress.
The pretty brunette died on Wednesday at 4 am in the intensive care unit of Pitié-Salpêtrière (13th century). The family donated their organs, as Miriam wanted. "His last gesture of love", sums up a loved one.