Le destin de Jean-Marc et de sa fille Jade a basculé l'été de 2022 alors qu'ils profitaient de leurs vacances en Guadeloupe. Un jour alors qu'ils décident de faire une sortie en jet ski, Jade est violemment percuté par deux autres conducteurs, sous les yeux impuissants de son père. À seulement 21 ans, et à quelques jours de son départ pour poursuivre ses études à Hong-Kong, Jade se retrouve dans le coma, et aujourd'hui lourdement handicapée. Depuis, son père, terriblement choqué par l'accident, se bat chaque jour pour que les responsabilités soient établies : celle du moniteur en mer avec eux et de l'agence de location de jet-skis dont il déplore le comportement.
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00:00 During a week, she asked us to kill her.
00:04 She told us that she...
00:06 that we shouldn't have saved her.
00:10 We went on a trip in Guadeloupe with my girlfriend and my daughter.
00:15 On the third day, we decided to go out on a jet ski.
00:18 The monitor was in front of us,
00:20 I was alone on my jet ski,
00:23 my daughter behind me alone on her jet ski,
00:25 and two young men, about 23-25 years old.
00:28 The monitor told the two young men that they were going a little too fast
00:31 and that they had to slow down.
00:32 It stopped, so I slowed down,
00:35 Jade, who was behind me, also slowed down.
00:38 I turned around to say, "Hey, it's great, we're going to have a good time."
00:42 It's like in a movie.
00:44 The number 4 scooter with the two young men arrived
00:48 at full speed,
00:51 to hit Jade from a distance.
00:53 For a fraction of a second, I thought it was...
00:56 It was not serious, at all.
00:58 I jumped right away to get it back.
01:01 It had a mark, it was a bloodstain.
01:04 What was terrifying was that it was in the coma.
01:08 I carried it as I could to take it to the monitor,
01:10 who put it on the jet ski.
01:12 I yelled at my wife to call for help.
01:14 I couldn't stop yelling. It was uncontrollable.
01:16 They certainly wanted, like Jade, who is quite cute,
01:19 to impress and do something fun from their point of view,
01:24 but without any control, because they were filming.
01:27 They also admitted that they had drunk Whiskey Monster,
01:30 a mixture of Beignet and Whiskey Monster.
01:32 The driver said he hadn't found the brakes on a jet ski.
01:35 That also shows us the idea of the briefing we had,
01:39 because there are no brakes on a jet ski.
01:41 We got home after 17 days, and we were told,
01:44 "Your daughter, if she doesn't stay in a coma for several years,
01:48 in the best case, she will be in a vegetative state,
01:50 because she had a brain injury.
01:54 She also had two prefrontal shocks.
01:56 They asked us several times to unplug her.
01:59 We were able to find the Toulouse-Purpont hospital,
02:03 which welcomed her in neurology at first,
02:05 without really knowing what to do with it.
02:07 But little by little, things progressed.
02:10 Her body expressed the desire to get out on its own,
02:12 against all diagnostics, she opened her eyes more and more frequently.
02:15 And then, whether there should be a sign or not,
02:17 on December 23-24, she really regained consciousness,
02:20 it's her memory.
02:21 In fact, a brain injury,
02:23 she regained her cognitive abilities,
02:25 we can say it's a miracle.
02:27 Today, my daughter doesn't speak and doesn't hear.
02:30 She moves her left hand in a way that is not fully mastered,
02:32 even if it improves day by day.
02:34 When we asked her multiple choice questions,
02:35 she remembered the PIB in China.
02:38 She also wanted to reread her preparation copies
02:41 at the Concours des Grandes Ecoles de Commerce,
02:42 where she understood everything, math, philosophy.
02:44 After that, we also feel the superhuman test she is going through.
02:48 For a week, she asked us to kill her,
02:53 and she told us that we shouldn't have saved her.
03:00 She did this, or that,
03:03 as if we had to press a trigger.
03:08 It lasted a week like that.
03:10 And then, inevitably, we don't know if we made the right choice.
03:18 Jade is a floating creature.
03:20 She is unstoppable, she moves everywhere, she dances.
03:24 In this paralyzed position,
03:26 impossible to speak, impossible to hear.
03:28 I think no one would be comfortable anyway, that's for sure.
03:32 For a month, when we thought she was with us,
03:33 she thought she was dreaming.
03:35 It was a nightmare.
03:36 In fact, Jade can't cry, or laugh.
03:40 So we feel all the tears, but we don't see them.
03:43 They make me powerless, totally powerless.
03:46 In all this horror,
03:48 the fact that she regained her cognitive ability was really unexpected.
03:51 It means that if she has a cognitive ability, she can also try to influence her thoughts.
03:55 She can fight.
03:57 She is a very autonomous person, so she inevitably can't stand
04:00 being taken care of for the toilet, for everything.
04:04 She can't decide anything.
04:05 She feels not only trapped in her body, but trapped in a system.
04:09 She hoped to hear again, but she can't.
04:11 She hoped to be able to start talking, but she can't.
04:13 So that's what I was anticipating.
04:16 The fact that she is late on some errands,
04:19 I think it gives her a blow to the morale.
04:20 I don't know if it's a game, but there's always
04:23 her friends who continue, she's the CEO of the year.
04:25 So, fortunately, her friends are there, but her friends are leaving and she stays in her room.
04:30 I take about 12 or 14 medications a day.
04:34 In the morning, four in the evening.
04:36 In the meantime, I had a heart attack in May.
04:38 I need 14 alarms before I can get up.
04:41 It's a real struggle because it's impossible to go out without thinking.
04:44 To do anything without thinking about Jade, it's impossible.
04:46 I can't walk down the street of young people without thinking, "Why isn't Jade here?"
04:51 It doesn't work like that, but I would have preferred to die.
04:53 I would have preferred never to go out, never to travel.
04:56 So, I want to die.
05:00 I'm not in pain at all, that's for sure.
05:02 Everyone asks me for a word that is inaccessible.
05:04 I can't accept it.
05:06 I can't accept what happened.
05:08 There is no logic for it to be Jade who touched the rabbit.
05:12 We are alone in the middle of the ocean, alone.
05:15 We are supposed to be framed, we are alone.
05:17 So, yes, I want to see the driver, of course, because...
05:21 Damn, it's not possible to go straight on her like that.
05:25 It's like he's looking at her.
05:26 It's like a bike, it's like a car.
05:27 The vehicle goes where the eyes go.
05:29 So, he looked at her, and he filmed her.
05:31 Of course I want to see her.
05:32 But I want to see the monitor, which was much more than light.
05:37 I want to see the company that was much more than light,
05:39 since we could feel that they were running after the tent, so after the money.
05:43 They tell me, "We're going to file a complaint too,
05:45 because we lost two jets and we can't operate two jets, okay?"
05:48 But frankly, what the hell do we care?
05:50 Then they put on their TripAdvisor website that they had only one accident in 9 years.
05:54 Which is false, since no one else called me.
05:56 So, it's my daughter who serves as quality assurance for this company.
06:01 Not a visit to the hospital, nothing.
06:04 Even though they are not even convicted today.
06:07 This company shouldn't have opened,
06:09 because it reopened the day after,
06:12 by reposting photos on Instagram of people having a good time.
06:15 There was not a day of administrative closure.
06:18 And the people I filed a complaint against were not heard as...
06:23 In the case of my complaint, they were heard as witnesses.
06:25 So, I filed a complaint against the driver, the passenger.
06:29 From my point of view, it's hard to say,
06:31 but the possibility of influencing the driver, which was the case,
06:34 it influenced in a bad way.
06:36 We film a slightly dangerous situation with his phone,
06:42 to put it back on the net.
06:43 He could have pulled the cord,
06:46 oops,
06:47 he could have pushed the driver to the water.
06:50 The monitor, obviously,
06:54 obviously, because he saw things happening, but from afar,
06:57 so he could have intervened long before.
06:59 We didn't get any indication from the monitor
07:01 to know how they stopped each other.
07:04 Which surprised me a little, but it's true that
07:06 in the context of holidays and trust, I may not have asked the question.
07:09 Alcoholism is tolerated when you go out in a jet ski, it's zero.
07:12 And indeed, the question of "did you drink?" was not asked.
07:15 And in principle, all professionals detect
07:18 to detect those who drank or possibly consumed substances
07:21 that could endanger the exit.
07:23 But the timing was such that they were late
07:25 that none of this happened.
07:27 No contract signing by any of the protagonists.
07:30 The question was not asked.
07:31 And on the other hand, in the testimony, the monitor said that
07:34 when he brought them back behind him, he said that they were poisoning the alcohol
07:37 and that they told him that right away.
07:38 So I mean, it wasn't something that was undetectable.
07:41 It was pretty shouting, but hey.
07:44 And for the little story, it's that the monitor and the manager are two former police officers.
07:48 So-called super-pros of the rescue who did nothing.
07:51 They didn't call for help.
07:53 They didn't come to her side.
07:54 They didn't come afterwards.
07:55 No version that agrees.
07:57 No document.
07:58 No accidentology.
08:00 A video that wasn't used.
08:01 And we remember, yes, indeed, the driver had drunk.
08:06 But the accidentology context, I don't know if we can call it that,
08:10 was multiplied by 100 by the company, the monitor.
08:14 For me, it's quite a one-off.
08:17 First, the shortcomings.
08:18 Because what we want is several things.
08:20 The first is to have a version of the truth that holds up.
08:24 If we made mistakes, we have to know.
08:26 But I think there are some that we did that also have to fully respond,
08:30 and not just at the level of society, since there are people who give complaints.
08:34 In principle, in such a case, the maritime management must conduct an investigation.
08:37 There is none.
08:38 And the case was still closed.
08:40 What I would like is for the truth to be established,
08:42 the responsibilities to be assumed,
08:44 because we can't destroy the life of one person like that.
08:49 But it's not one person, it's several people.
08:51 It has enormous consequences, not just on me, but on my daughter,
08:54 on her sister, on her mother, of course.
08:57 We will have to make sure that Jade keeps a mental state to move forward.
09:02 Because if she is mentally there,
09:03 I think the connection between the mental and the physical will be direct.
09:06 We sometimes feel that all the staff around us is asking us to accept.
09:13 But the only way, I feel, to get by is to refuse.
09:17 The second thing we aim for is also,
09:19 in any case, in this period, to give a very strong message
09:22 to all the parents who will do jet skiing with their children,
09:27 to really be, I would say,
09:30 intransigent about the safety conditions.
09:33 And if they have the slightest doubt, my message is,
09:35 you get out of the way.
09:37 Because it happens at a speed,
09:39 you can't do anything if there is a problem.
09:40 And it's a f*cked up life.
09:42 I can't project myself at all in a scenario
09:44 where my daughter is not in an acceptable state of autonomy for her.
09:49 I'm a little out of time, actually.
09:51 It seems a little simple,
09:54 but I made the promise to always be there for her,
09:56 so I'll be there.
09:58 I'll be there.