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By AFP 
2h ago
Perpignan, France – Around 50 police officers, rescuers and doctors mobilized in southern France on Tuesday to remove an obese man who could no longer get up from the floor of his room and was too big to be carried out the door or out. come down. the stairs.
Alain Panabiere, 53, had been stranded for months at his home in central Perpignan “in all likelihood after breaking his leg,” said his lawyer Jean Codognes.
His brother had fed him, but his condition rapidly deteriorated and, in late October, the lawyer wrote to the French Interior Minister, Gerald Darmanin, asking for an emergency ransom.
A few days later, Panabiere, who weighs about 300 kilograms (660 pounds), and the French Antiobesity League also filed a legal complaint alleging “not helping a person in danger.”
“This is a high-risk operation,” Codognes said, as police cordoned off the narrow street while the rescue was carried out at the two-story Panabiere home.
Police said neighbors were also asked to leave their homes in the event of an accident.
Having reinforced the building’s structural stability, the workers cut a passage through an exterior wall on the upper floor, according to AFP journalists at the scene.
Panabiere was then placed on an IV drip and carefully carried into a metal storage box suspended from a crane outside, so that it could be lowered while lying down to a waiting ambulance.
“When a person moves again after being immobilized for two to five years, there is a risk of cardiac decompensation and venous thrombosis,” said Antoine Avignon, head of endocrinology, diabetes and nutrition at the nearby hospital in Montpellier.
“You’re reviving a cardiovascular system that has been at rest for a long time,” he said.
Panabiere will be treated in the city of Montpellier before being transferred to a rehabilitation center in a few weeks, Avignon said.
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