The firefighter who received the last confidences of Lady Di speaks out 20 years after the tragedy – Gala

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The fireman frenchman Xavier Gourmelon is expressed for the first time in the press about the tragic night of 31 August 1997, when he and his team were the first to come to the rescue Lady Di, just after his accident.

He is the one who has blown his last words. The paramedic Xavier Gourmelon, now 50 years old, has drawn a Lady Di from the rubble of the Mercedes accident in the night of 31 August 1997, in Paris. Twenty years after the death of the princess, he finally comes out of the silence and confides that for the first time his emotional memories of the drama to the press, in an interview to the weekly british The Sun. ” We were close to the scene of the accident, it took us less than three minutes to arrive “, he says. According to him, Lady Di was still conscious when the output of the carcass of the car.

“The woman who was inside, and I later learned that it was princess Diana, was lying on the ground at the rear, it was moving slowly and I immediately saw that she was in life. I spotted an injury to the right shoulder, but apart from that, nothing striking. She had no blood on it “, details there. When he took her in his arms, he did everything to reassure her to the maximum. ” My God, what happened ? “would she asked, visibly panicked.

A few moments later, the princess suffered a cardiac arrest while being installed on a stretcher. It was then that Xavier Gourmelon tried to revive her. “We are trained in first aid, so when I saw that she had stopped breathing, I gave him a cardiac massage “, he remembers. “ A few seconds later, she breathed again. I was so relieved. I was convinced that I had managed to save her life. “ It is only after being transported in the ambulance, a colleague he slips that he was, in fact, Lady Di. Until then, the young man had not recognized the face of the injured.

A few hours after the departure of the ambulance, it is the shock. The young firefighter learns that the princess is dead at the hospital around four o’clock in the morning. ” To be honest, I really thought she was going to live. For me, it was loaded into the ambulance alive, I thought out of danger. When I learned of his death later in the hospital, it was terrible. Today I know that she suffered serious internal injuries “, he says still in the Sun. ” Even now, I visualize perfectly the scene. This is something that I will never forget “, he admits. Every year at this time, the dark night was to him in its every detail…

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