Word: mailliez
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According to police records, the first call to the fire department's emergency medical unit was made at 12:26 by an anonymous woman using a borrowed cell phone. The police had not yet arrived. The first medical worker to arrive was Christian Mailliez, 36, an off-duty emergency-service doctor who happened to be driving through the opposite lane of the tunnel on the way back from a birthday party. "There was a lot of smoke," he told TIME and CNN in a joint interview. "People were speaking loudly. There was a kind of panic, like one usually finds...
...minutes later, a car from S.O.S. Medecins, a volunteer medical group, sped up. Frederic Mailliez, an off-duty doctor who had happened by the scene, jumped out; seeing others helping Rees-Jones, he went to help the woman in the rear, whose identity he would discover only the next morning on CNN. Mailliez originally claimed Diana was moaning and gesturing, but he now refuses to describe how she looked or if there were last words. "This is the kind of situation that creates myth," he says exasperatedly. "[If she did speak], I would say it only to her family...
...Frederic Mailliez, a French physician who came upon the accident scene by chance, says he found Diana unconscious but "moaning and gesturing in every direction." There was another sound in the tunnel that night: the whirr and click of paparazzi cameras, like little guillotines. Mailliez says that when he arrived, 10 or 15 photographers were already at work. First to arrive were Romuald Rat, 24, of the Gamma agency, and Christian Martinez, 41, of Angeli. Rat insists that he tried to help by opening the car's right rear door and feeling Diana's pulse. "I saw the princess sitting...
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