Lawyer for 300kg man stranded at home calls state for help

A street in Perpignan (illustration) -

For several months, a man has been stranded at his home, in a house in the poor Saint-Jacques district, in Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales).

This fifty-year-old, who weighs nearly 300 kg, is stuck on the ground, since a fall.

Since then, he has remained seated, without moving, in dilapidated accommodation.

His relatives move heaven and earth to be helped to take care of him, and to evacuate him.

In vain.

His lawyer, Jean Codognès, alerts the state.

He sent a letter on Thursday to the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, to examine the fate of this man.

A complaint for "non-assistance to a person in danger"?

"I ask that we put an end to this cinema", confides to

 the lawyer from Perpignan, who points out the urgency of the situation of his client, whose support has, for the moment, not been accepted by hospitals in the region.

Jean Codognès does not exclude, moreover, to file a complaint for "non-assistance to person in danger".

"I will write it", assures the lawyer.

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