After he fell to the ground, no one rescued him, leaving him agonizing for hours until he died. The victim is the well-known Swiss photographer René Robert: he was in Paris, in the heart of the city, when he fell, then he probably fainted or at least was unable to get up.
It was 9 in the evening in rue de Turbigo, in the district of La République. Passers-by did not stop, they did not call an ambulance, and the freezing cold of the night reduced the 84-year-old artist, famous for being the "tango photographer", to a state of "extreme hypothermia". This is what the doctors at Cochin hospital wrote on the death report after a homeless man raised the alarm at around 6 am.
(Unioneonline / ss)
