“Your mom is heartbroken, but she knows you will never hurt again,”
wrote
Églantine Éméyé
on Instagram on February 20.
The host confided in social networks to announce the death of her son Samy at the age of 17.
According to this mother's testimony, the polyhandicapped teenager suffering from non-verbal autism
"flew to the stars after 13 days of struggle
".
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On Wednesday, Églantine Éméyé made her first appearance on television since the death of her son.
A speech in
"BFM Story" in the context of the disappearance of Marciano, 7 years old, an autistic child missing in Niort since last Sunday.
Faced with Alain Marschall and Olivier Truchot, the founder of the association “Un pas vers la vie”, delivered a moving message to warn about the care of autistic children, recalling that in France “600,000 to 700,000 people
suffered of this disorder”
.
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The two presenters then led their guest to talk about her son, Samy
.
"It is necessary that I continue the fight, for the families but also for me in order to make sense of it all
," she said with a laugh hiding a strong emotion.
Samy's cause of death revealed
In this associative fight which
“allows her to hold on”
, Églantine Eméyé wanted
“to reassure all the parents”
of children with autistic disorders.
“My son's story is tragic, it was not planned.
Just because you have autism doesn't mean you die at 17.
It has nothing to do
, ”she said on BFMTV before revealing the causes of her boy’s death.
According to the facilitator, Samy
"heavily handicapped",
succumbed to a vascular accident in the spinal cord.
The one who is also the mother of another son, confided
"having long kept hope for better days and clung to the magnificent moments shared with Samy".
Faced with a question from Alain Marschall on
"deliverance"
linked to the death of her son, Églantine Éméyé found herself moved to tears.
"As a mom, it's difficult, it's my baby
," she recalled before admitting to having allowed herself a question.
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“I asked the doctors if Samy's condition was going to continue to deteriorate, they said yes. A part of me clings to this idea that he will never suffer again, ”
explained the host of the France Télévisions group before sharing very intimate emotions.
"I miss his smell, his contact, his way of expressing himself and his happiness"
, she listed before remembering the
"flapping",
arm movements reminiscent of the flapping of a bird's wings, that Samy did to share his joy.
"It was wonderful to see him do that
," she concluded, wiping away a tear.