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A container is lifted over a building by a crane before being used by doctors of the French Urgent Medical Aid Service (SAMU) to evacuate a man suffering from morbid obesity from the first floor of his home in Perpignan, southwestern France, on 1 December 2020. Picture: AFP.

Alain panabiere

French authorities evacuate obese man trapped in his home

By AFP

Alain Panabiere, 53, had been stranded for months at his home in central Perpignan 'in all likelihood after breaking his leg,' his lawyer Jean Codognes said.

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