Renato Silva, the young Portuguese shot in the head during a terror attack in France last month, has come out of his coma.
According to reports, he has been able to express himself and move his body though “there is still a degree of mental confusion”.
What is not clear however is when, how and if doctors at the neurological unit in Perpignan hospital are considering extracting the bullet still lodged in the 26-year-old’s brain.
Silva, originally from Coimbra, was unlucky enough to be in his car at ‘the wrong place, at the wrong time’ when Moroccan Radouane Lakdim went on a bloody ramage which ended in four dead and 16 wounded after a siege in a supermarket in Trèbes.
Media reports stress that Renato’s survival has much to do with the fact that he was able to telephone his mother after he was shot, thus alerting rescue services to his location (click here).
The passenger he had with him in his Opel Corsa was not so lucky. Also shot in the head at point blank range, Jean Mazières died at the scene.
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