The facts date from Monday April 13 around 8 p.m., at the Euroairport cross-border checkpoint.
A mother arrives on French soil after a flight from Algiers. She is holding her 14 month old baby. She is in panic, crying and screaming, ensuring that her daughter is no longer breathing. The two officials on duty are wasting no time. They notice that the baby has been unconscious, in cardiorespiratory arrest, probably for several minutes. His lips are already blue and his complexion is pale.
While the first police officer alerts the SSIAP, the fire safety and personal assistance service, the second, helped by another passenger who witnessed the emergency, carries out first aid procedures. He opens the baby’s clothes, cools his face, turns the child over and pats him on the back. The baby regains consciousness, breathes and cries. It gradually regains color.
A first alert when getting on the plane
Nurses arrive and take over. The child, stabilized, is then taken care of, just like the mother, and transported to the emergency room of the mother-child center of the Mulhouse hospital group. The father, who arrived a little later, will join them after collecting the family’s belongings.
We later learned that the baby had already had an alert when boarding the plane in Algiers and that he had been seen by a doctor who had not issued any obstacle for his return to France. Today the child is doing well. As for the two officials, their professionalism, their great responsiveness and their composure were noted and praised by Unsa Police 68 who raised a note within their hierarchy.
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