” What do you do ? “. Mehmet Demir is worried. This Sunday, he had Dina Girard on the phone around 5 p.m. “I’m with two girlfriends and I’m coming,” she had promised him. As usual, Mehmet Demir, restaurateur at Okarizm, a snack bar in Hayange, provided his service. It was when closing time that he worried about not seeing his friend arrive. Unanswered, he left to find friends. At 1:30 a.m., he realized why his message had gone unanswered. “We lost Dina,” he received from a friend by text message.
“Dina is like a sister to me,” he says. Her family and that of the young woman have known each other for years. “Dina and her little sister did their internship in our restaurant, and Dina continued to do extras there regularly,” he explains. “They had lost their father in 2007, I felt a duty to watch over them,” he continues.
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Helpful and courageous
Dina lived in Thionville with her mother and her 17-year-old sister. She had completed her schooling at La Milliaire college, near her home, then at the Lycée polyvalent de Thionville Sophie-Germain. She was destined for a career in the field of personal services and trained at the Le Kem geriatric hospital in Thionville. Helpful and courageous, Dina was, according to Mehmet Demir, “not the type of person to wait for things to fall on her”.
An opinion that those who knew her seem to share in view of the number of glowing comments addressed to the young woman and her family on the online fundraising page launched the day after the accident by Mehmet Demir. “The goal is to raise money to support the family and fund good deeds for Dina,” he explains.
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Ongoing investigation
“My heart is broken into a thousand pieces. I lost the people I loved very much: my father and my sister, ”wrote Alissa, Dina’s little sister, on Thursday on the eve of the funeral prayer celebrated in honor of her sister Friday afternoon. “There was an incredible number of faithful, from everywhere,” rejoiced Mehmet Demir.
On board the car which, for a still undetermined reason, left the road Sunday evening, around 9:30 p.m., on the A314, in the Strasbourg – Nancy direction, near the town of Vantoux, were two other young people. women, two close friends of Dina, originally from Pont-à-Mousson. The 21-year-old driver suffered a fractured pelvis, her 19-year-old sister had to have her leg amputated. They are, to this day, still hospitalized at Mercy Hospital. The Saint-Avold motorway peloton is investigating to determine the causes of this tragic accident.
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