A drama on the square of the village of Saint-Just, in the Hérault. During the votive feast of Saint-Just, Abdellah, 72, was hit on Monday around noon by a cow in the village square, during a release while he was in the perimeter “closed by barriers Beaucairoises behind which people take refuge, the bravest then going to try to tease the animal “, with his coffee and his telephone near a low wall, reports Midi Libre. “I saw the whole scene, the cow came out, she slipped, then she rushed at him, he wanted to climb on the low wall and the cow took him in the back. […] He fell in front of me, we did first aid, ”says Quentin, 24. Upon their arrival, the firefighters of Sdis 34 transported him in critical condition to the Lapeyronie hospital center, where he was admitted to intensive care in the anesthesia and resuscitation department (Dar A). Plunged into a coma, the retired agricultural worker succumbed to his injuries.
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“He didn’t know there were bulls, he just went off to drink his coffee… We were alerted that his shoulder was dislocated and there was some blood… There was a brain haemorrhage… We do not realize, we are upset, to think that a bull killed him, it is unimaginable, he was 72 years old, ”lament Myriam, Aziza and Zahara, three of the five daughters of the deceased, around a Moroccan tea. They want to know the truth, especially the exact circumstances of their father’s death. “We want the truth, we want to know how his last moments went,” they add, accusing the organizers of not having better secured the premises. “Our father didn’t like bulls, he didn’t know, he didn’t know the rules, and even if there was a call on the microphone, you have to make sure that there is no one left on the course,” they lament.
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“Touched” and “in shock”, the village observed Thursday a minute of silence in tribute to Abdellah. An investigation for manslaughter has been entrusted to the gendarmes of the Lunel company, which will have to determine the exact circumstances of the death of the man who had arrived in France with his wife in the 1980s, to work there as an agricultural worker, first in Gard and very quickly to Saint-Just, where he had lived for 30 years. After an autopsy, his body will be repatriated to Morocco.
2023-08-11 20:01:01
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