Frédéric Mailliez was not working on the night of August 31, 1997. This ER doctor was returning from a birthday party in the western suburbs of Paris when he met his husband in the car near the Alma tunnel. There, they found a wrecked Mercedes car.
“My role as an ER doctor is to stop, of course,” he explains 25 years later on the set of BFMTV, “there are two victims who are not breathing and two others who are still breathing but need urgent attention, so I’m asking for help.”
The first aid given to the princess.
Not having any medical equipment with him apart from a medical mask, he nevertheless tries to provide assistance to one of the victims with absolute urgency. She is a young woman, she is badly injured but she is still alive: she is Lady Diana.
“I know it’s very surprising for everyone, but I don’t recognize her”, says Frédéric Mailliez on our antenna, “I am the only doctor in front of four serious victims, I have something else to think about than to see who that is”. woman”.
The ER doctor manages to enter the damaged vehicle and reach Diana Spencer. Then she helps her breathe with a mask until the other help arrives. The princess, who left the Ritz with her companion Dodi Al-Fayed, was chased by the paparazzi. The latter, however, “did not bother” the French doctor “to have access to the victims.”
“I didn’t ask them to help me, I didn’t need it and they didn’t bother me,” he reaffirms.
“My name is attached to this tragic night”
Once the emergency services are on the scene, Frédéric Mailliez sends them as much information as possible about the victims and the care he has provided them. He then withdraws to let the “more equipped” firefighters intervene.
“Leave […] it is an accident such as I have experienced in others. I get back in my car and go home,” he continues on BFMTV.
She will only learn the following morning, through her husband, of the terrible news: “It was Diana, it was Diana, and she is dead.” “There is the shock of knowing that she was the princess and that she had died a few hours later,” confesses the doctor who explains that this news marked her life in the weeks that followed the ‘accident’.
“There was the police investigation where I was questioned by the French and English police and then all the media hype and conspiracies that complicated things,” he lists, certain that he has been accused of being an MI5 agent (the British secret service, Note from the editor). “I’m a doctor, I’m here to save people, not to kill them,” he replies today.
If this evening does not haunt him, Frédéric Mailliez explains despite all the “reliving” when he mentions it and considers himself “responsible for the last moments” of the princess: “I know I did the most in the medical plan and here we are”. she knew she couldn’t be saved.”
“My name is now attached to this tragic night and this accident,” he concludes on BFMTV.
Source: BFM TV
