Young man saves the lives of dozens of people in Lille, northern France

A surprising and unexpected event happened in the early hours of last Saturday, the 12th, in Lille, northern France. A young man who was returning home after a party ended up saving the lives of dozens of French people from the collapse of a building in the city.

Thibaut Lemay, 22, as he approached the building, noticed that the construction he wasslightly crooked and cracked, as reported to the French press. When the boy went up to his apartment, according to him, the doors were jammed.

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“When I arrived and saw the cracks, I woke up my two flatmates and we realized that the building had bent because we could more open to thedoors, It is we heardyourubble falling", Lemay told the newspaper "La Voix du Nord”.

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The day after the incident, during the search, the firefighters still found a body among the rubble, which the authorities believe it to be a 45-year-old man who did not hear the firefighters' call to evacuate the building.

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AmediaIt isto theauthoritiesfrom the cityconsideryouthreeyoung peopleheroes. MartineAubry, mayor from Lille, declared to BFM TV that attitude in motto and yours friendssavedlife of the residents.

“If thatknight didn't come home at 3 amIt isnohadenteredcontact us, we would not have reacted so fast It is, obviously,there would belots of more deaths,” she said.

The Lille Public Prosecutor's Office startedan investigation for to examine the causes and responsible​​by the collapse. The building it had three floors, and one of them he wasinconstruction.

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