Coline woke up after a three-week coma. During the New Year’s Eve, the young woman was saved by her boyfriend, the young footballer Tahirys dos Santos, who had warned her when a fire broke out in the bar “Le Constellation” in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.
“I didn’t really think, I went straight to see Coline, I called her, she was in the toilet and we ran up the stairs. She didn’t ask any questions, she came straight away,” recalled the FC Metz player, on the mend, to Paris-Match.
“He came into the girls’ bathroom and yelled: Coline, come! There is fire! I had never heard him speak like that. There was something terrible in his voice,” his girlfriend said.
She came out of the coma after three weeks. “I was sure I was in a nightmare and that I was going to wake up,” said Coline L. The two lovers met again on January 28, according to the magazine. Burned on his arms, hands, face and especially his back, Tahirys dos Santos praised the role of a certain Amandine, who helped him and inspired him.
“I would save lives”
“She spoke to me, she reassured me. “She’s a student, you could say she saved my life,” he said. I asked her to take a photo of me for my parents, so they wouldn’t worry, to show that I was fine even after what happened and that if I didn’t become a professional footballer, I would save lives like her. »
From now on, it is a question of reconstruction, psychological and also physical. “At the very beginning, I didn’t want to look at myself so as not to worry,” explained the 19-year-old left-back. Even though I knew my face had been hit and my hair had been cut. »
