The 19-year-old high school student had a heart condition.
“I lost my son. I will never be able to get him back. But I expect justice to enlighten me on the real circumstances of his death”. Nadir’s father, a high school student with a heart condition who died in March during a baccalaureate exam in Lille (Nord), filed a complaint against the school and supervisors for “non-assistance to anyone in danger”, he said. -he announced with his lawyer to AFP, Thursday, April 27. Tidjani Bekaddour-Benatia, “filed this complaint himself, on April 8 at the central police station in Lille”said his lawyer, confirming information from The voice of the North.
He has “claims facts of non-assistance to person in danger”And “directed the complaint against the Gaston Berger school, and all adults” who were monitoring the event, he added. When Nadir, 19, “was seized with a heart attack, one or two minutes after the distribution of the subjects, the supervisors did not react as they should”said the lawyer.
“The adults remained frozen”
According to several student witnesses, “he was left on the ground, without the supervisors seeming to react”during “about twenty minutes”, “even though the establishment was aware of its fragility”, a serious cardiac pathology, he detailed. Nadir was then transferred to Lille University Hospital where he died.
The lawyer specified having transmitted written testimonies to the parquet floor of Lille, which opened after the death an investigation in “investigation of causes of death”. The Minister of Education Pap Ndiaye announced to him the opening of an administrative investigation by the General Inspectorate.
Invoking the stories of a “ten students”, his father assured that Nadir first asked to leave the room, which he was refused. Then “he collapsed, was in agony, the students screamed, wanted to help him, the supervisors told them ‘no, you stay in your place'”he assured. “The adults remained frozen” even when a student warned that he had a heart attack, and a supervisor would have him “even spanned, continuing to distribute the leaves”, he still denounced. After the death, the rectorate had assured that the emergency services had been contacted “directly” and the teenager “immediately placed in the lateral safety position”.