On June 22, 2019, around 13 p.m., a "Taxi" minibus from the Dutch side is parked in the parking lot of the port of Marigot facing the sea and in the immediate vicinity of the water.
"While he wishes to leave his location with 14 passengers on board, the driver - probably - makes a driving error by activating the forward gear and the vehicle falls into the shallow water of the port" indicates the gendarmerie which specifies that the The driver's alcohol and drug tests were negative. A few meters away, Steve Artsen, 18, is fishing with his friends.
“We saw a van maneuver and then fall into the water. By the time I got there a gentleman had jumped into the water and was breaking the front window. I went to help her out the passengers. We then opened the back door to get the others out. I lent my fishing knife to the gentleman so that he could cut the seat belt that was holding a passenger underwater. He had started to drown and we brought him up and someone started to revive him. The passenger finally spit out the water and resumed breathing. During this time, my friends were in the process of recovering the luggage that was moving away to return it to the passengers, ”says the student in the nautical maintenance terminal at vocational school. Thanks to the intervention of these young people, all the passengers and the driver got out of the water. Accompanied by his brother, Steve Artsen was received this Tuesday, June 25 in the early afternoon in the office of Janine Hamlet, the principal of the LPO to receive the congratulations of the rector Mostafa Fourar and the IA-DAASEN Michel Sanz.
"Through this heroic gesture you have shown that the values that national education seeks to transmit to you, such as solidarity and courage, are there," declared the rector. President Daniel Gibbs and his executive received the five young heroes at the Hôtel de la Collectivité on Wednesday, June 26 at noon. The prefect also presented the bronze medal for act of courage and dedication to the five young people.
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