the boss of the Samu des Deux-Sèvres denies any failure during the rescue of injured demonstrators

Accused of not having intervened in time to help the injured during the clashes between the police and demonstrators in Sainte-Soline, in Deux-Sèvres, Saturday March 25, the boss of Samu 79 disputes, Thursday March 30 on franceinfo, any failure while the boss of the gendarmerie finds him “mind-boggling” to say that the forces of order have prohibited the rescue services from intervening.

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According to the head of the emergency department of the Niort hospital, Farnam Faranpour, the recording of the human rights league on the non-assistance to person in danger is truncated because at the time of the conversation an ambulance had already left the town of Ruffec in Charente to help the injured in a vital emergency. “In the other part of this recording, it is still said that the rescuers have left”says Farnam Faranpour, “Besides, when the Smur team arrived, they were very worried because they were arrested by demonstrators, not necessarily to attack them, they didn’t know that, it was to ask them to intervene on others injured when their objective was to go to this serious patient”. The head of the emergency department of the Niort hospital also indicates that “the military doctor who was also at the bedside of this patient before the arrival of the Smur, received some projectiles, perhaps because he was dressed as a soldier, once he took care when he left .”

Intervention decision taken collectively

The boss of Samu 79 also reiterates that the rescue was not hindered by the authorities. He affirms it, it is collectively, that the Samu decides to intervene or not with the firefighters and the prefect: “in this system of disaster medicine, there must be a unified command. When I ask the gendarmes to accompany me on such and such a thing because I think there is a danger, it’s it’s normal that I can trust them and when they tell me if there are difficulties, I listen to their expertise. So it’s a collective discussion, obviously it’s the director of emergency operations who will take the final decision but there is a consultation before deciding how we organize ourselves for this or that event.

“If the escorts had been more present, but they were on other sites, maybe we would have gained 15 or 20 minutes and even then, I’m not sure.”

Farnam Faranpour, head of the emergency unit at Niort hospital

at franceinfo

In this case, the director of emergency operations was here the Prefect of Deux-Sèvres, Emmanuelle Dubee. So could the emergency services have done better? No, answers the head of the emergency department of the Niort hospital, “we have incompressible periods in the time of care”asserts Farnam Faranpour, “Obviously part of the travel time of the medical team to the level of the assembly point of the victims is incompressible”. The head of the emergency department at Niort hospital also highlights the difficulties in finding the patient, “At 2:52 p.m. the Smur team was on the scene, they could not be in contact with the patient until 3:15 p.m., there is still an incompressible period to find this person”. An investigation was opened by the prosecutor of Rennes and entrusted to the IGGN the inspection of the gendarmerie, to peel the chronology of the intervention of the helps. The defender of rights, Claire Hédon, took up the cases of the two seriously injured demonstrators in Sainte-Soline.