2023-08-09 21:39:58
It is with eyes filled with tears, supported by her companion, that we meet Sarah, this Wednesday at the start of the evening in Wintzenheim. This 30-year-old traveled the endless two-hour drive that separates Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) from the small Haut-Rhin town, near Colmar. Sarah lost her brother Didier (the first name has been changed) in the drama that took place at a place called La Forge on August 9.
“He was 33 years old and he had a slight mental disability. I collapsed, struggling to testify the young woman. I received a call this afternoon from the establishment for help and service through work to which he belonged, in Saint-Max. He was part of this Eau Vive home as a disabled worker. Didier had neither wife nor child and I think he must have been very happy to go on vacation to Alsace. »
Her brother is one of the victims who succumbed to this tragedy, but Sarah does not “know the circumstances in which he died”, only “that he died in a fire”. “I imagine he was unable to escape the flames. It’s horrible to think about what he had to go through,” she breaks down.
As the young woman headed for the psychological aid cell set up in a multipurpose room in Wintzenheim, she hoped “to find out more about the causes of my brother’s death”. If she had not heard from him in recent days, she knows that he had left Meurthe-et-Moselle “with an association of slightly disabled workers and that he had chosen to spend his holidays in Alsace”.
A holiday that will have turned into a tragedy. While an ecumenical ceremony of homage to the victims was organized in the Saint-Laurent church in Wintzenheim this Wednesday evening, the young woman planned during our meeting to perhaps go there for “a last farewell” to his brother. “If I hold out,” she whispered, however, to finish.
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