He owes them his life. Noah Briac Alban, baby found in a trash can in Rennes on Friday October 20, is today in good health. First taken care of in the maternity ward of the South Hospital, the infant abandoned in a buried container in the Sarah-Bernhardt district was rescued by the firefighters.
Saturday, on the occasion of Sainte-Barbe, the four SDIS agents from Ille-et-Vilaine who came to his aid were decorated and received the medal of honor for an act of courage and dedication. In 2022, the department’s 3,373 firefighters carried out more than 50,000 interventions and received nearly 700 emergency calls per day.
His mother will have to stay in prison
On October 20, they were alerted by a resident of the neighborhood, worried about hearing the cries of an infant coming from a trash can. The child, born a few hours earlier, was discovered naked in a plastic bag. Injured in the head and victim of cranial trauma, he was saved by the intervention of the emergency services, who had to go down into the dumpster to help him. “I picked him up, took him in my arms, and he started screaming. From there, I knew that he was conscious and that we had to act as quickly as possible for his survival,” Corporal Steven Robert testified to France 3 Brittany.
The child’s mother, a 17-year-old woman from Mayotte, is currently in pre-trial detention. Confused by his DNA, the father explained that he had had a relationship with a young woman several months ago. He was released at the end of his police custody.
The mother explained to investigators that she gave birth alone at home before trying to get rid of her baby. “It is an atrocious and heartbreaking decision, one of those that we regret the next second,” reacted in a press release his lawyer Maître Amina Saadaoui, who hopes for his release.