German paramedic sacked for drawing a HITLER moustache on comatose migrant being rushed to hospital after drug overdose
Sick prank carried out on drug casualty being transported in ambulance
A PARAMEDIC in Germany has been fired after drawing a Hitler moustache onto the face of an immigrant being ferried to hospital for a suspected drink and drugs overdose.
The incident happened at Christmas but only came to light this week when medical assistant Thomas Wagner posted a video and photos in a WhatsApp chat room set up by him for the Johanitter care group in Frankfurt.
He wrote on a photo of the victim : "Victim#1 - today: trendy beards."
And a friend responded with a tasteless quip about the Nazi Holocaust writing: "The Yolocaust." Another wrote: ";Oh, how peaceful it slumbers!"
Yolocaust - yolo stands for you alone - referred to selfies taken at sensitive Holocaust remembrance sites in Germany.
On the video the patient is seen slumped over the gurney inside the ambulance.
Wagner is not seen but can be heard saying: "Are you coming into the hospital with us to get sober?"
The victim responds weakly: "Yes."
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Then there is more laughter from the ambulance crew when one says: "You're supposed to lie on the stretcher, not over it."
Days later Wagner seemed to realize the error of his ways and posted in the chat room: "A few lines on the video I posted...it shows how not to do it. I pledge to do better."
And a day later he pleaded with fellow users to erase everything he had posted, adding: "I have to accept the consequences of my actions and will today hand in my notice."
But his bosses beat him to it after viewing the chat room contents and sacked him.
Oliver Pitsch, Johanniter boss for the area, said: "We saw the photos and video and his employment was terminated immediately and instantly."
But Wagner's woes are not over: his bosses are mulling over filing a criminal complaint about his actions with local prosecutors for failing to properly care for a patient he was responsible for.
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