At the microphone of Europe 1, the latter explained the circumstances. “We were there, we were joking regarding everything. And all of a sudden, when we arrived 150 meters from Gare Montparnasse, there, he had his discomfort, he explains. He had eyes like a dead man. The eyelids had not drooped. The eyes were open. His body was the Grévin museum. There was nothing left. It was terrible. You had to stick your tongue out and massage it. We would have been on the highway, he lost his life there.”
Fortunately, firefighters were five minutes away. They arrived very quickly and in number, six or seven, according to Francis Huster.