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L'histoire dramatique d'un footballeur français plongé dans le coma depuis 39 ans
17/03/1982 :
Le Franco-Sénégalais Jean-Pierre Adams (né le 10 mars 1948) tombe dans le coma. 39 ans plus tard, il n'en est toujours pas sorti. C'est son épouse, Bernadette, qui s'occupe de lui.
« Gertrude amène les cigognes, Barthélemy vide leur nid. »
Theme : Août, Mars
17 mars : Sainte-Gertrude.
24 août : Saint-Barthélemy.
« Dieu nous garde des fanges d'août
Et des poussières de mai surtout. »
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couple a un deuxième enfant, Frédéric.
Jean-Pierre
Adams: The 38-year coma that can't stop love
Jean-Pierre and Bernadette Adams : A love like no other
"Former France international Jean-Pierre Adams entered into a coma in 1982 following a botched operation on his knee. His story is being republished by CNN International to mark his 72nd birthday on March 10, meaning he has now spent over half his life in a coma. The article was first published on January 4, 2016. CNN Sport contacted his wife Bernadette this week to check how Adams and her were doing. "We are going as well as possible, of course," said Bernadette."
Jean-Pierre Adams
et sa femme Bernadette. © DRJean-Pierre Adams vit dans un état végétatif depuis 39 ans. Il a été victime d’une erreur médicale à la suite d’une banale opération du genou. L’histoire du Français d’origine sénégalaise
est dramatique, notamment pour sa femme Bernadette, avec qui l’ancien international est marié depuis 52 ans, qui le soutient au quotidien. “Peut-être qu’un miracle médical arrivera bientôt”, a-t-elle confié à CNN, à l’occasion du 73e anniversaire de son époux.
Rédaction 31-03-21, 12:20 Dernière mise à jour: 31-03-21, 12:21 Source: CNN
Son histoire n’est pas sans nous rappeler l’accident de Michael Schumacher. Jean-Pierre Adams, né à Dakar, dort les yeux fermés depuis 39 ans. Ce qui aurait dû être une banale opération
du genou, quelques mois après la fin de sa carrière de footballeur, a viré au cauchemar. Le 17 mars 1982, cet international franco-sénégalais tombait dans un profond coma à la suite d’une erreur d’anesthésie.
Dans les années 1990, l’anesthésiste et son assistant ont tous deux été condamnés à un mois de prison avec sursis et à une lourde amende. Adams, quant à lui, ne pourra plus jamais
marcher, parler ou se déplacer seul.
Jean-Pierre Adams. © AFPLe soutien sans faille de Bernadette
Près de quarante ans plus tard, l’ancien défenseur désormais grand-père est donc toujours plongé dans un coma profond. Depuis toutes ces années, il a toujours été épaulé par sa
femme Bernadette. “Personne n’a oublié son anniversaire ou la fête des Pères”, a déclaré l’épouse à CNN, à l’occasion de son 73e anniversaire le 10 mars dernier.
Le couple vit ensemble dans le sud de la France. Jean-Pierre passe ses journées au lit. “Les gens sur Facebook me disent de le débrancher.... mais il n’est même pas branché! Je
n’arrêterai pas de lui donner à manger et à boire. Il a une routine normale, il se réveille chaque fois vers 7 heures. Il est dans un état végétatif, mais Jean-Pierre m’entend et il peut s’asseoir dans un fauteuil roulant.”
Bernadette Adams. © DRL’espoir d'un miracle
“J’insiste pour qu’il porte des vêtements différents chaque jour. Nous lui offrons donc régulièrement des vêtements en guise de cadeau. J’achète des choses pour embellir sa chambre
ou de nouveaux draps. Du parfum aussi. Il a longtemps été un fan de Paco Rabanne, mais son parfum préféré n’est plus disponible sur le marché, alors maintenant je lui achète “Sauvage” de Dior. Jean-Pierre a toujours rayonné d’une joie de vivre contagieuse.
Rire, plaisanter, sortir: c’est ainsi qu’il vivait. Et c’est ce que je veux qu’il fasse maintenant aussi, dans la mesure du possible.”
“Son état ne se détériore pas, alors qui sait? Peut-être qu’un miracle médical arrivera bientôt.
Bernadette Adams.
Bernadette lui donne également un bain quotidien et veille à ce qu’il ait toujours quelque chose de savoureux à manger. Ce n’est que lorsque sa femme est absente de la maison que
Jean-Pierre se sent triste. “Quand il est entre les mains des autres, les infirmières me disent qu’il n’est pas le même. Je pense qu’il doit reconnaître ma voix et mes sons.” Bernadette espère qu’un jour son mari retrouvera miraculeusement une indépendance
partielle. “Son état ne se détériore pas, alors qui sait? Peut-être qu’un miracle médical arrivera bientôt. Mais plus le temps passe, plus je suis inquiète à ce sujet, bien sûr.”
22 sélections en équipe de France
À l’âge de dix ans, Adams a déménagé en France, où il a été repéré par un recruteur de Nîmes dans les années 1970. À l’époque, le garçon travaillait également pour un fabricant
local de caoutchouc. Nîmes était encore une grande puissance du football français à l’époque, régulièrement en course pour le titre. Au cours de la saison 1972-73, ils ont remporté, avec Adams, la Coupe de France et ont terminé à la deuxième place de la première
division. Saison au cours de laquelle Adams, surnommé “la pierre noire”, obtient sa première sélection en équipe de France.
Après cette année, il est parti à l’OGC Nice où il a joué 144 matchs pendant quatre ans. Il jouera 22 fois pour les Bleus et formera un solide duo de défenseurs centraux avec Marius
Trésor. Après un match solide contre la Pologne, l’entraîneur français de l’époque, Stefan Kovacs, a nommé le duo la “garde noire”, même si la France n’a pas connu une grande période et ne s’est pas qualifiée pour l’Euro en 1976.
Adams et Marius Tresor. © CNN
Une banale opération va changer sa vie
À 29 ans, Adams quitte l’OGC Nice et rejoint le PSG où il joue pendant deux ans et devient un solide défenseur. Après avoir joué pour Mulhouse en deuxième division, Adams terminera
sa carrière à 33 ans au FC Chalon, où ont également joué Josef Klose et le père du futur célèbre Miroslav. Prêt à embrasser une nouvelle vie après sa carrière de footballeur, il a dû passer sous le scalpel pour éviter que le genou ne lui fasse trop mal. Il
était loin de se douter que l’opération allait changer sa vie de façon aussi dramatiquement.
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Jean-Pierre Adams
Jean-Pierre Adams
| Jean-Pierre Adams | ||
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| Biographie | ||
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| Nationalité | 
France
Sénégalais
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| Nat. sportive |
France |
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| Naissance | 10 mars 1948 (73 ans) | |
| Lieu | Dakar | |
| Taille | 1,78 m (5′ 10″) | |
| Période pro. | 1970 - 1981 | |
| Poste | Défenseur Central | |
| Pied fort | Droit | |
| Parcours senior1 | ||
| Saisons | Clubs | M (B.) |
| 1967-1970 |
RC Fontainebleau |
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| 1970-1973 |
Nîmes Olympique |
84 (8) |
| 1973-1977 |
OGC Nice |
126 (15) |
| 1977-1979 |
Paris Saint-Germain F.C. |
41 (1) |
| 1979-1980 |
FC Mulhouse |
11 (1) |
| 1980-1981 |
FC chalonnais |
23 (1) |
| Sélections en équipe nationale | ||
| Années | Sélection | M (B.) |
| 1972-1976 |
France |
22 (0) |
| 1 Matchs de championnat uniquement. Dernière mise à jour : 18 mars 2021 |
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Jean-Pierre Adams, né le 10 mars 1948 à Dakar, est un footballeur international français évoluant au poste de défenseur.
À l'occasion d'une opération bénigne au genou, Jean-Pierre Adams tombe dans un profond coma le 17 mars 1982 à la suite d'une erreur d'anesthésie[1].
Biographie
Né à Dakar, Jean-Pierre Adams est élevé par une grand-mère sénégalaise que l'amour de la religion catholique amène en pèlerinage à Montargis, dans le Loiret, pour y déposer le jeune garçon, âgé de huit ans, dans une école religieuse. Des parents adoptifs de bonne volonté et le football lui permettront d'échapper à l'Assistance publique. Adams est un ancien élève de l'école Saint-Louis de Montargis[2].
Il se marie en avril 1969 avec Bernadette Adams. Leur premier fils, Laurent, né en décembre 1969[3], est par la suite entraîneur des moins de 18 ans du Football Club Aregno-Calvi, en Corse. Il s'est reconverti après avoir passé une année au sein de la Division d'Honneur de Calvi en tant que joueur. Le couple a un deuxième enfant, Frédéric[3].
A Chalon-sur-Saône à partir d'août 1980, il trouve un emploi à l'établissement Moreau Sports[4]. Le 17 mars 1982, opéré d’une rupture du tendon au genou, l’anesthésiste se trompe dans les dosages et plonge l’international français dans le coma. En 2021, il est dans sa 39ème année sans être sorti de cet état[2],[5].
Carrière sportive
Après des débuts à l'Entente Fontainebleau avec laquelle il est double vice-champion de France Amateurs en 1968 et 1969, Jean-Pierre Adams, défenseur, signe à Nîmes début 1970. Il explose rapidement à mesure que les Nîmois gravissent les échelons. 1972 sera l'année de sa révélation totale puisqu'il finit vice-champion avec les crocodiles gardois, gagne la Coupe des Alpes et intègre l'Équipe de France lors d'un France - Afrique. Ce défenseur, mesurant 1,78 m, constitue en équipe de France avec Marius Trésor une charnière centrale défensive redoutable surnommée « la garde noire »[2]. En fin de carrière, il signe fin juillet 1980 au FC Chalon[6].
Palmarès
En club
- Vainqueur de la Coupe des Alpes en 1972 avec le Nîmes Olympique
- Vice-Champion de France en 1972 avec le Nîmes Olympique et en 1976 avec l'OGC Nice
- Vice-Champion de France Amateurs en 1968 et en 1969 avec le Fontainebleau
- Demi-finaliste de la Coupe de France en 1973 avec le Nîmes Olympique
En équipe de France
Statistiques
9 matchs et 2 buts en
Coupe de l'UEFA
251 matchs et 24 buts en
Division 1-
11 matchs et 1 but en
Division 2
- Premier match en CFA : Entente Fontainebleau vs. Châteauroux, 1er octobre 1967
Hommages
En 1987, à l'occasion de l'inauguration de son ensemble sportif, la commune de Corquilleroy donne le nom de Jean-Pierre Adams à son stade.
Le 2 mars 1997, le village de Catillon-sur-Sambre inaugure son stade de football, en présence du Variété Club, de Mme Adams et de Michel Platini. Ce stade porte le nom de « stade Jean-Pierre Adams ».
Le terrain du FC Chalon, où il évoluait au moment de son opération, porte lui aussi le nom de « terrain Jean-Pierre Adams ». L'un des terrains de Dammarie-les-Lys en Seine-et-Marne porte son nom en indiquant sur une plaque qui il est, et le nombre de sélections en équipe de France.
Le gymnase du Thionville Moselle Handball porte aussi son nom.
Bibliographie
- Doris Rognon, Jean-Pierre Adams, ex-international de football. Biographie. France Europe Éditions, 2006
Références
- ↑ Cécilia Arbona (Radio France), « “Le foot m'a tout apporté et il m'a tout repris” : Bernadette Adams, la femme du footballeur plongé dans le coma depuis 36 ans, témoigne » [archive] [html], sur France Info, 17 mars 2018 (consulté le 18 mars 2018).
- ↑ a b et c Ouest France, « Jean-Pierre Adams, le roc noir, dans le coma depuis 33 ans » [archive], sur ouest-france.fr, 6 janvier 2016 (consulté le 19 mars 2018).
- ↑ a et b Hélène Bry, « Interview de Bernadette Adams » [archive], sur Le Parisien, 17 mars 2007.
- ↑ Le Courrier de Saône-et-Loire, Pages sports, Guy Cattin, Jean-Pierre Adams et FC Chalon : Souvenirs, souvenirs.
- ↑ Julien Panafieu, « Jean-Pierre Adams : 38 ans de coma » [archive], sur parisunited.fr (consulté le 26 janvier 2021)
- ↑ Le Courrier de Saône-et-Loire, 31 juillet 1980, Pages sports
Inyemeramihigo
02.04.2021
Jean-Pierre Adams: The 38-year coma that can't stop love
By Piers Edwards, for CNN
Updated 1436 GMT (2236 HKT) March 11, 2020
Jean-Pierre and Bernadette Adams: A love like no other
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"Former France international Jean-Pierre Adams entered into a coma in 1982 following a botched operation on his knee. His story is being republished by CNN International to mark his 72nd birthday on March 10, meaning he has now
spent over half his life in a coma. The article was first published on January 4, 2016. CNN Sport contacted his wife Bernadette this week to check how Adams and her were doing. "We are going as well as possible, of course," said Bernadette."
Nimes, France (CNN)What present do you buy a man who has been in a coma for more than 30 years?
That's the question the family of former France international Jean-Pierre Adams, whose life was brutally turned upside down in 1982, asks itself every year on key anniversaries.
Thirty-six years ago the beefy footballer, then 34, walked into a Lyon hospital for some routine surgery to correct a troublesome knee.
By the time he left, he would never talk, walk or move any of his limbs again.
His wife Bernadette has tended to him ever since, barely missing a day's care over the last three decades.
"No one ever forgets to give Jean-Pierre presents, whether it's his birthday, Christmas or Father's Day," Bernadette told CNN.
Adams, who turned 72 on March 10, can breathe on his own, without the assistance of a machine, and has his own room, where he spends most of the day in the type of modified bed normally found in a hospital.
"We buy presents like a T-shirt or a jumper because I dress him in his bed -- he changes clothes every day," his wife explains at the family home near Nîmes, in the south of France, where Bernadette cares for Jean-Pierre.
"I'll buy things so that he can have a nice room, such as pretty sheets, or some scent. He used to wear Paco Rabanne but his favorite one stopped so now I buy Sauvage by Dior."
Adams leaped straight from the amateur divisions to the French top flight, where he played for Nîmes (1970-3: above), Nice (1973-7) and Paris Saint-Germain (1977-9).
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Rapid Rise – Adams leaped straight from the amateur divisions to the French top flight, where he played for Nîmes (1970-3: above), Nice (1973-7) and Paris Saint-Germain (1977-9).
Jean-Pierre's disastrous surgery reduced a flamboyant character, who had risen from humble beginnings in Senegal, to one who has been in a persistent vegetative state ever since.
A France international player in the 1970s, Jean-Pierre is now incapable of nearly all voluntary movement but can digest food as well as open and close his eyes.
Bernadette looks after her husband with an unfailing love -- dressing, feeding and bathing him, turning him over in his bed to avoid sores, and often losing her own sleep to ensure he gets his.
It's a measure of their bond that on the rare occasions Bernadette spends a night away from home, Jean-Pierre's carers notice his mood seems to change.
"He senses that it is not me feeding him and looking after him," says his wife of 51 years. "It's the nurses who tell me, saying he is not the same.
"I think he feels things. He must recognize the sound of my voice as well."
The period of enlightenment
Jean-Pierre and Bernadette may have been born in Senegal and France respectively, but their lives started to converge in the mid-1950s.
That was when Jean-Pierre's grandmother took him to Europe on a religious pilgrimage, enrolling the 10-year-old at a school in France as she did so.
Soon adopted by a local French couple, his African existence rapidly started to disappear behind him.
It was in the late 1960s, that Jean-Pierre, then an amateur footballer, met Bernadette at a dance.
It was a time of change, with the uprising of May 1968 heralding a new era as students and workers altered France's cultural outlook as they challenged the conservative nature of General de Gaulle's government.
"I can't hide the fact that it was very difficult for my family at the beginning," Bernadette recalls, reflecting on the challenges they faced as a mixed race couple.
"At the time, a black man and a white woman being together wasn't well-regarded.
"But we began to live together and then decided to marry. I wrote to my parents giving the news, the wedding date and an invitation, and my mother invited us to dinner.
"After that, everything was fine and he was seen in a better light than me: 'Jean-Pierre, Jean-Pierre' -- they only spoke of Jean-Pierre!"
The couple first lived just south of Paris -- in Fontainebleu -- where Adams was helping the local side win its amateur championship, but shortly after their 1969 marriage, they moved to Nîmes as Jean-Pierre signed for the city's
then first division side.
Within two years, not only had Nîmes finished runners-up but Jean-Pierre was playing for France -- one of the first black players to do so.
"He was a force of nature, very strong physically, and he had great determination and willingness," Henri Michel, who played in Adams' first competitive France international in 1972, told CNN.
"He was formidable, very patriotic and it was a pleasure to play with him," added a man who coached France at the 1986 World Cup. "He started as a forward but then played at the back."
There, Adams formed a central defensive partnership known as the "Garde Noire" -- "Black Guard" -- alongside Marius Trésor, a player the Brazilian Pele named, in 2004, among his 125 greatest living footballers.
"Adams and Trésor have formed one of the best central defensive pairings in all of Europe," no less a figure than German World Cup winner Franz Beckenbauer told French football magazine "Onze" at the time.
Arguably, along with previous black internationals like Larbi Ben Barek and Lucien Cossou, the "Garde Noire" helped pave the way for France's 1998 World Cup success. Key players such as Patrick Vieira, Marcel Desailly and Lilian
Thuram were born in Senegal, Ghana and Guadeloupe respectively.
In total, Jean-Pierre won 22 caps and also played for Paris Saint-Germain and Nice, narrowly failing to win the French title with the latter (again), while also knocking Barcelona out of the 1973-4 UEFA Cup.
Life was just good off the pitch.
With a love of music -- particularly from Brazil -- and a taste for cigars, clothing and bling, Jean-Pierre fully enjoyed 1970s life with Bernadette.
"He was the 'joie de vivre' embodied in human form -- a laugher and joker who liked to go out," says Bernadette, who is dressed in an à la mode Desigual T-shirt and spotless white trousers on the day we met. "Really, a smile was
always bursting out. He loved the good life and was loved by everybody as well."
As his career faded, dropping down the divisions, Adams decided he wanted to coach youths and one March day in 1982, he headed off to Dijon for three days of studying and training.
He damaged a tendon in his leg while there -- an innocuous injury that would ultimately cast a huge shadow over the Adams family.
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The 'perfect storm'
Jean-Pierre traveled to the Édouard Herriot Hospital in Lyon for his X-ray.
"From there, he was to come home," recalls Bernadette. "But he was walking along a corridor in the hospital -- where he knew no one -- when a doctor who knew all about football, since he looked after the Lyon team, walked past."
Stopping to talk, the doctor instantly offered to help and after an instant consultation, he decided upon surgery and booked Jean-Pierre in for an appointment: Wednesday March 17, 1982.
When the date came around, there was a problem. The hospital staff were on strike.
Jean-Pierre's case was far from urgent -- he could have soldiered on for a bit -- but the surgery went ahead nonetheless.
"The female anesthetist was looking after eight patients, one after the other, like an assembly line," says Bernadette.
"Jean-Pierre was supervised by a trainee, who was repeating a year, who later admitted in court: 'I was not up to the task I was entrusted with.'
"Given it was not a vital operation, that the hospital was on strike, they were missing doctors and this woman was looking after eight patients, in two different rooms, someone should have called me to say they were going to delay
the operation."
They never did -- and between the anesthetist and trainee, numerous errors were made.
Jean-Pierre was badly intubated, with one tube blocking the pathway to his lungs rather than ventilating them, meaning
he was starved of oxygen whereupon he suffered a cardiac arrest.
"I found him lying on a bed, tubes everywhere," she remembers after rushing to the hospital. "I didn't leave the hospital for five days. I thought he was going to wake up and that I needed to be there."
When she felt fresh air again, the world had become a very different place.
Life now
After 15 months in hospital, local authorities suggested to Bernadette that the best place for her husband would be a nearby home for the elderly.
"I don't think they knew how to look after him, so I said to myself: 'He will come home' and I've looked after him ever since," says Bernadette.
Every day, she wakes just before seven o'clock and has her breakfast -- precious minutes spent alone -- as she readies herself to care for her husband.
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It's a mix of changing clothes, shaving, preparing food -- all of it blended -- and delivering it, which can take an hour, helping Jean-Pierre go to the toilet, while also helping the kinesiologist ensure his lungs are clean and
his muscles exercised to avoid choking and atrophying.
If she is lucky her day finishes at eight, when Jean-Pierre might go to sleep.
"Sometimes when the night goes badly, I'm up for the whole thing."
The round-the-clock care leaves little time to earn a living, but thankfully for the stoic Bernadette, she receives an annuity after a court ruled in her favor -- albeit after a decade-long legal battle.
"The process lasted nearly 12 years. I think it's designed to discourage people," she ventures. "If I hadn't had the support of football, I would have been completely broke."
The French league, football federation and the Variety Club of France -- a club for former France internationals -- all rallied together to help with her legal fees.
Although the accident occurred in 1982, it wasn't until 1989 that the medical staff were found guilty of "involuntary injury" --- and even then, it still needed nearly five more years to decide the family's dues.
"We've played five or six games over the years because we knew that Bernadette was in financial and psychological difficulty," Jacques Vendroux, the general manager of the Variety Club of France, told CNN.
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"Jean-Pierre was someone very appealing and deserved help. He is still alive and that is amazing."
He's also made to feel as much part of family life as possible, with his room adjoining the house's focal point, the kitchen-cum-living room.
"I talk to him all the time -- about TV, what's in the mail, anything!" Bernadette says. "There is always movement around him. He is always next to us."
When I ask whether she ever imagines conversations the pair might have had, Bernadette momentarily chokes up -- a brief insight into the true cost of the accident for a proud and serene woman.
"I don't know," she replied. "It's difficult to say. I say he doesn't understand my words but there might be moments when he has a flash. Perhaps for an instant, just an instant, he understands something."
It's unlikely though.
Gray hairs
Jean-Pierre's brain was so starved of oxygen he suffered catastrophic brain damage, making the prospect of recovery very slim.
"The more time that passes, the more bothered I get," she says. "His condition does not get any worse, so who knows? If one day, medical science evolves, then why not? Will there be a day when they'll know how to do something
for him? I don't know."
While she relentlessly hopes there is, she continues to preserve both his legacy and dignity.
She told me long before our meeting that no pictures of Jean-Pierre would be allowed and when I asked if I could photograph the entrance to his room, the answer was Bernadette pushing the door shut -- gently but firmly.
But she happily introduces me to Jean-Pierre, but he still looks very youthful -- with just a light sprinkle of gray hairs. He was sleeping, I was told, even though his eyes were open.
On his bed was a bright bedspread, a present from many years back, and in the corner a small TV.
At one point after he had woken up, Bernadette briefly left the room.
I stood there awkwardly -- all notions of explaining how I once lived in Senegal pushed to one side as such inane conversation seemed so glib I fell into silence instead.
With Jean-Pierre's eyes unable to follow, I felt invisible and, given his situation, both sad and angry.
"The hospital has never apologized," Bernadette had said just minutes earlier.
Future conditional
Jean-Pierre's wife is troubled at present. By the future.
"Imagine if I die before him, then what would become of him?" she asks.
"He'll die without being looked after. He needs me to be able to eat, to meet his primary needs. If I don't do it, who will?"
When I ask whether her sons -- Laurent and Frédéric, who were 11 and four respectively at the time of the accident -- could help, she revealed that she was desperate to spare them such a fate.
Had she ever considered euthanasia for Jean-Pierre?
"What do you want me to do -- deprive him of food? Let him die little by little? No, no, no," she railed.
Back in 1982 as Bernadette drove to Lyon that was also a question that haunted her, terrified she would be asked to agree to switch off the life support machine Jean-Pierre was then on.
"I try not to think about the accident every day but I have no choice," says Bernadette, who is now a grandmother of three. "Every time I look at him, it is present in my head."
In the mid 1990s, when the court adjudicated on the case, both the anesthetist and trainee were given what would appear to be relatively light punishments: a one-month suspended sentence and a fine that translates to some 750
Euros ($815) today.
Decades on, the Adams family are still paying a far heavier price.
Additional reporting: Amanda Davies, Francesca Church, Lauren Moorhouse and Sophie Eastaugh.
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