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Fotógrafo René Robert caiu numa rua de Paris e morreu ao
frio após nove horas sem ajuda
René ia até à
"Place de la République", no centro da capital francesa
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O fotógrafo René
Robert, de 84 anos, morreu de hipotermia, depois de ter desmaiado e de ter
ficado caído numa rua parisiense durante nove horas, sem receber ajuda. O
incidente aconteceu na noite de 19 de janeiro.
O artista saiu de
casa em direção à "Place de La République", no centro da capital
francesa. No caminho sentiu-se mal, desmaiou, caiu e ficou assim durante nove
horas. Quando os bombeiros chegaram ao local, o homem já tinha morrido de
hipotermia, segundo o jornal "El País".
Segundo inúmeras
reportagens nos meios de comunicação social franceses, ninguém parou para
ajudar Robert quando este caiu desamparado no meio de uma rua movimentada da
capital francesa. De acordo com o amigo do fotógrafo Michel Mompontet, Robert
morreu graças "à indiferença" das pessoas.
"Os
bombeiros, alertados por um sem-abrigo, chegaram ao local por volta das 6.30
horas da manhã", disse Mompontet à televisão francesa France Info.
"[Robert] ficou ao frio durante mais de nove horas, sozinho, até morrer. A
equipa médica do hospital de Cochin não foi capaz de o reanimar".
Para o amigo da
vítima, a morte do artista é um exemplo trágico de uma sociedade indiferente.
"Ao menos que se aprenda alguma coisa com esta morte. Quando uma pessoa
está deitada no chão, mesmo que estejamos com pressa, vamos ajudá-la. Vamos
parar", pediu, ainda, Mompontet.
Robert nasceu em
1936 em Fribourg, Suíça. Começou a carreira na fotografia nos campos da
publicidade e da moda, mas ganhou fama com os seus retratos do mundo do flamenco.
‘Killed by indifference’: France shocked by death
on busy Paris street
Swiss photographer René Robert died from hypothermia
after falling and being ignored for nine hours
Sam Jones
in Madrid and Kim Willsher in Paris
Fri 28 Jan
2022 16.04 GMT
The death
of an 85-year-old man who reportedly succumbed to hypothermia after falling and
spending nine hours sprawled and ignored on a bitterly cold street in central
Paris has prompted grief, anger and incredulity in France and beyond.
René
Robert, a Swiss photographer known for his shots of some of Spain’s most famous
flamenco stars, died last week after slipping while on one of his nightly walks
around the busy Paris neighbourhood where he lived.
According
to his friend the journalist Michel Mompontet, Robert fell over on Rue de
Turbigo, between the Place de la République and Les Halles.
“He
suffered a dizzy spell and fell,” Mompontet said in a series of tweets. “Unable
to get up, he lay rooted to the spot in the cold for nine hours until a
homeless person called the emergency services. Too late. He had hypothermia and
couldn’t cling on to life. Over the course of those nine hours no passerby
stopped to check why this man was lying on the pavement. Not one.”
Mompontet,
who also recounted the circumstances of his friend’s death on France TV Info,
said Robert had been “killed by indifference”, adding: “If this awful death
could serve some purpose, it would be this: when a human is lying on the
pavement, we should check on them – no matter how busy we may be. Let’s just
stop for a second.”
Mompontet
pointed out that many people – himself included – often looked the other way
when it came to people on the street. “Before giving any lessons or accusing
anyone, I need to deal with a little question that makes me feel uneasy,” the
journalist told France TV Info. “Am I 100% sure that I would have stopped had I
been confronted with that scene – a man on the ground? Have I never turned away
from a homeless person lying in a doorway?”
The death,
which occurred in an area of Paris where many homeless people sleep rough, has
sparked a debate about civic responsibility and basic human decency.
A headline
in Le Figaro read: “The photographer René Robert, dead in the indifference of
the middle of the street.”
The Spanish
embassy in the Netherlands tweeted: “The death of René Robert, who immortalised
with his camera all the great artists of flamenco, challenges our collective
conscience.”
Robert, who
photographed flamenco legends including Camarón de la Isla and Paco de Lucía,
was remembered by another of his more recent subjects.
“Very sad
at the loss of René Robert, who I was lucky enough to meet and be photographed
by,” said the Grammy-winning flamenco singer Arcángel. “I can’t understand why
no one helped him; I don’t want to think that we live in a society with so few
values.”
The Olivar
Association, which has worked with young homeless people in Madrid for more
than 30 years, said it was saddened but not surprised. “A lot of people are
talking about the awful story of René Robert,” it said in a tweet. “But the
reality is that this is the cruel, day-to-day experience of those who live and
die on the street. What is happening to us as a society that something like
this can happen?”
According
to homeless associations, 600 people die on the streets of France every year.
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