|
Michel Flamant
was close to dying of carbon monoxide poisoning when Jerome
Aucant, the homeless man, raised the alarm. Flamant caused a
minor media sensation by pledging to sell his business to Aucant
for one euro ($1.13).
The 62-year-old said the abrupt change came after he went to his
bakery shortly before midnight and found his would-be successor
had invited a bunch of friends to drink on the premises in his
absence.
"Last week, I returned to the bakery at 1030, 11 at night as
usual and discovered that Jerome had set up a bar of sorts with
wine and beer, and all his homeless friends in the oven room. I
told him this was not part of the deal," Flamant told the French
state radio channel France Bleu.
"Tempers rose and he started insulting me, so I told him to pack
his bags and go," said the baker, who was saved when Jerome
spotted him staggering around his bakery after a carbon monoxide
leak.
Flamant, who had known Aucant for a long time, had handed over a
set of keys to his premises in the eastern Jura region and
started training the savior-turned-successor before a planned
handover of the business later in 2016.
($1 = 0.8825 euros)
(Reporting by Brian Love, editing by Larry King)
[© 2016 Thomson Reuters. All rights
reserved.] Copyright 2016 Reuters. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
 |
|
