A hundred-year-old resistance fighter, Protestant chaplain pastor, many times decorated, was rendered practically blind following a violent attack on his home last May in Toulouse.
At almost 101 years old, Fernand Frantz was molested by three individuals who rang on his door on May 28 to rob him, tells
La Dépêche du Midi
to whom he sent a letter to tell his story.
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That day, while he was waiting for his carer, an individual came to his home, pretending to be a construction worker and claiming a problem with blocked pipes.
With two accomplices disguised as fake police officers, he attacks the centenarian and gives him violent blows from the top of the back to the knee.
Physical and psychological consequences
In his letter to
La Dépêche du midi
, he specifies that "
physical and psychological damage takes time to be forgotten
".
They result in "
loss of sleep, appetite and weight
".
Her daughter is worried about her health.
“This assault shook him psychologically.
He had already lost his hearing now it's his sight.
It cuts him off from the world.
For him who followed the news, day to day, it is heartbreaking
, ”she testifies to the regional daily.
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Decorated with the Croix de Guerre, the Legion of Honor and the National Order of Merit, Fernand Frantz is an Alsatian Lutheran pastor who was notably the Protestant chaplain of the Alsace Lorraine Brigade commanded by André Malraux.
According to the regional daily, the centenary lived until last May in a peaceful retirement, mixing the pleasures of reading books and newspapers.
It was recently honored by the daily on its hundredth anniversary.
Proven, Fernand Frantz praised the action of the police, to find his attackers.
"If there are people who denigrate the police, I wish them, if it was necessary to be assisted with such consideration and seriousness.
" The case is still ongoing.
