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French physician and activist
Patrick Pelloux
(born 19 August 1963 in
Villeneuve-Saint-Georges
,
Val-de-Marne
) is a French
physician
and
activist
. He is a specialist of
emergency medical services
.
Biography
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Patrick Pelloux became well known in France during the
2003 European heat wave
, as he was the first to point out that thousands of people were dying, though the French authorities denied it.
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Since 2004, he has written articles in
Charlie Hebdo
, a satirical newspaper, on the work of an emergency physician.
[1]
Since 2008, he has been chairman of
Association des medecins urgentistes de France
(a French
trade union
for emergency physicians). He is opposed to
bullfighting
.
During the
Charlie Hebdo
shooting
, on 7 January 2015, he was near the magazine's building, so he was one of the first people on the spot after the shooting, having been called by someone who worked for the magazine. He immediately phoned French President
Francois Hollande
to tell him what had happened. He saw that some of his friends were dead and provided first aid to the others.
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