Les Orages de la vie, a program presented by Christophe Dechavanne, looks back on these tragic incidents that mark for life.
At the Boraine police station, Christophe Dechavanne met an inspector very familiar with Belgian viewers: Bertrand Caroy.
As the policeman’s journey is retraced, he returns to a tragic accident that occurred during his childhood. “Our life changed one Friday evening here when we came knocking on the door, I was 7 and a half years old and my sister was 11 years old”he recalls.
The drama arrives in 1976 at around 7 p.m. Christian, Bertrand’s older brother, is 14 years old. He leaves the billiard room where he has his habits. He returns home by bicycle accompanied by one of his friends. At the same time, a car enters an adjacent road: the driver does not see the two teenagers on the side of the road and Christian is violently hit and then thrown to the ground.
His family, warned by the friend who accompanied him, tried to resuscitate him while waiting for help. Bertrand and his sister, Chloé, are welcomed by neighbors during the scene.
“Nothing was the same”
At the sight of the testimonies of his relatives for the program broadcast on December 20, Inspector Caroy lets out a few tears of emotion. “It’s not easy”even 40 years later. “Nothing was the same, my dad was a police officer understood directly what was happening but my mom didn’t understand right away, she had a depression afterwards, our family was completely torn apart after that period. , it was broken, it was unfortunate…”
“A strong bond” united Bertrand Caroy to his brother. He remembers little anecdotes that still soften him. “It’s a lack, it’s something that’s missing, I would have liked to still have my big brother and my sister too, he missed something when it happens to you, everything collapses, even if we are the strongest in the world…”
The man who knocked down his brother was heavily intoxicated and was part of law enforcement. “I’m not afraid to say it: yes it was a policeman who killed my brother.” One more motivation for little Bertrand for his future. “I’ve always had this desire to be a police officer, especially for road checks and to save lives.”