2023-08-14 12:52:33
“I had a black anger against this elevator which breaks down all the time”, confides Marie-Pierre Gay, 62 years old. “And then I was very upset against the lessor, I wanted to break everything”.
This resident of Thiais has been bubbling since the death of her husband, which occurred on July 5. Two days earlier, her husband fell in his small apartment in Thiais (94) after his daily walk. He bangs his head, doesn’t get up. His son calls the firefighters, who alert the SMUR when they discover that this 67-year-old retiree has suffered a heart attack.
Marie-Pierre Gay goes down to welcome the emergency doctors at the bottom of her tower. They decide to take the elevator, as the law allows them. “Lack of luck, we got stuck in the elevator between 2 and 4,” slips the Francilienne. On the 14th floor, her husband’s condition deteriorated. A second SMUR team, called by the first, takes 20 minutes to fill in for its colleagues. Georges died two days later after multiple complications.
“If the elevator had worked, the SMUR would have gone up in three or four minutes, like the time allotted to them. My husband suffered martyrdom. I tell myself that if the elevator had been in operation, perhaps it would still have been there today,” laments Marie-Pierre Gay. When questioned, the social landlord, the property management of the city of Paris (RIVP), indicates a “99% elevator availability rate”, while refusing to take responsibility for this tragedy. Watch our video report.
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