Sefa S., the 16-year-old teenager, brain dead after colliding on a motorcycle with a police vehicle in the streets of Elancourt (Yvelines), on September 6, “died yesterday [lundi] at 11:30 a.m.his father told CheckNews.
Several Turkish media announced this Tuesday, September 12, the death of the young man. In a six-minute video filmed by the Turkish news agency IHAhis father, Mehmet S., declared that his son was “died at 11:30 a.m.”, Monday. In this testimony, the father complains about the medical treatment given to his son in France and claims that he himself gave him a cardiac massage. The family then decided to transfer their child to Turkey, where he was taken care of at 4:30 a.m. Monday morning, before finally dying seven hours later.
Kept alive artificially
Monday afternoon, messages shared on the social network Snapchat, but including CheckNews could not confirm the authenticity, had also claimed that the teenager was dead.
The young man was initially transferred to Beaujon hospital, in Clichy (Hauts-de-Seine), where he was kept on artificial life support. His death, initially communicated to the press by the Versailles public prosecutor’s office on the evening of the tragedy, was the subject of a correction from his lawyer then from the public prosecutor’s office itself, specifying that he was in “a state of brain death. This condition means that the brain has stopped working permanently, but the heart beats and organs can still be transferred.
Transferred to Türkiye
As reported by the Turkish press, the teenager’s family refused to have him disconnected. With the authorization of the Paris prosecutor’s office, she opted for him to be transferred to Turkey, in the hope of continued treatment.
Joined by CheckNewsthe Versailles prosecutor’s office indicates that it “does not have any information on this subject. The young man was left at the disposal of the family, who has not given us any information as of now. A judicial investigation is opened today on the grounds of involuntary injuries, it will be up to the investigating judge to request all useful elements, and in particular possible proof of death, which can only be done through a valid death certificate. due form.”