2024-01-08 17:47:30
It’s a pretty crazy story and a beautiful act of heroism that was echoed in the newspaper Provence this Monday. Sunday afternoon, two boxers, Yohann Drai and Mehdi Sahnoune, 32 and 47 years old respectively, saved a man who was drowning in the waters of a beach in the Pointe-Rouge district, in the 8th arrondissement. from Marseille. The victim, safe and sound, was then taken care of by emergency services.
This Sunday, around 4 p.m., Yohann Drai was taking a nap in his boxing gym, located on avenue de la Pointe-Rouge when “a friend banged on the door”, reports La Provence. “About a hundred meters away, in the stormy sea, a man appeared to be drowning. While the emergency services were alerted, without further delay, the 32-year-old champion crossed Avenue de la Pointe-Rouge in a tracksuit and socks and rushed across the beach of the Vieille Chapelle in Marseille,” writes the newspaper.
The man “hypothermic and completely exhausted”
Drai and another boxer, the former WBA light heavyweight world champion Mehdi Sahnoune, then threw themselves into the water with rope and the first went there in his boxers. “Mehdi held the rope and I went towards the person, who was exhausted and unable to come back,” explains Yohann Drai in the columns of the regional daily. The problem was that there were rocks, we had to understand how to use the wave. »
“We didn’t think, we went for it, I didn’t even have time to feel the cold,” Drai continues. The “middle-aged” man was visibly hypothermic and completely exhausted from struggling with the waves. “He didn’t have a suit, his eyes looked black-orange, he was exhausted,” Drai further describes.
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