On September 9, 2019, Maxime Pans, a police officer from Liège, was seriously injured by a bullet to the head during a “banal” intervention. It was a simple routine check since a guy was sleeping in his badly parked van, rue de Visé, in Jupille.
Via the press service of the Liège police, Maxime’s family has kindly agreed to communicate news on the state of health of the one who was 33 years old when his life changed.
The photo dates back to January 2002. It had been taken when Maxime Pans had come to visit his colleagues at the Hôtel de Police in Liège.
He fights every day
“Maxime has been staying in the “La Célinie” nursing and care home in Crisnée for nine months now,” communicates the policeman’s family. “Nine months that, every day, Maxime fights to maintain maximum autonomy with the help of the MRS medical team (physiotherapists, speech therapists, occupational therapists, nurses, psychologists, etc.).
Today, Maxime still gets tired very quickly and he can only move around in his electric wheelchair for 2 to 3 hours a day. He learns to live with a mobility limited to his only right arm and with a complicated oral expression.
The days are therefore not all easy but Maxime keeps an impressive morale while we try around him to find the little tips and tricks that can improve his daily life.
Sometimes, it’s blinds that he can operate with his tablet or even a more comfortable bed compatible with the long moments that Maxime spends in a lying position.
Maxime is still frequently visited by police colleagues. These contacts give him a lot of pleasure and serenity in exchanges which make him say that “policing remains the best job in the world”.
His best memory of the past few months is certainly the reception organized by his friends and colleagues, which saw him return to the Hôtel de Police for the first time on January 28.
The weekly visits of her three children are her other ray of sunshine.
For the future, beyond a stabilization of Maxime’s condition, there is always hope that medicine will make the progress necessary for a positive evolution. »
