2023-10-24 08:54:00
It happened this Saturday evening on the sidelines of the risky Sporting de Charleroi (RCSC)-Antwerp match. Supporters were crowding towards the Mambour, a stadium whose perimeter was placed under police surveillance and protection. It was a little following 8:15 p.m., kick-off would be whistled half an hour later.
At that time, two aspiring police commissioners on probation accompanied platoon commander Oscar. While this platoon is on Janson Boulevard, a distraught young man asks him for help: his 78-year-old grandfather has just suffered a collapse, he has fallen to the ground and no longer reacts.
The midshipmen immediately came to his aid: the victim was in cardiac arrest on Boulevard De Fontaine. While a police officer undertook resuscitation, his colleague notified the SMUR. Arrangements have been made to keep onlookers at bay until emergency services arrive.
For nearly 30 minutes, the aspiring resuscitator assisted the SMUR who was able to intubate the septuagenarian and condition him for his transfer to the hospital, where he was admitted to intensive care.
The rapid intervention of the police made it possible to keep him alive. Risky football matches don’t always leave good memories, to put it mildly. They give rise to sometimes very violent clashes, damage and acts of vandalism. In this case, not only was the spectacle rich in sporting emotion for the supporters, but on the sidelines of the match which was played under the Mambour floodlights, a life was saved. This is valuable enough to be highlighted.
Charleroi: this is how 120 police officers secure football matches
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