英美術館１０階から投げ落とされた男児、言葉発する

【ロンドンＡＦＰ＝時事】英ロンドンにある美術館「テート・モダン」の10階展望台から投げ落とされたフランス人の男児（6）が、事件後初めて言葉を発した。家族が18日、明らかにした。（写真は英ロンドンのテムズ川沿いにある近現代美術館「テート・モダン」）
　事件は８月４日、美術館の開館中に発生。男の子は背骨と両足と腕を骨折し、目撃した来館客の間に恐怖が広がった。
　逮捕されたジョンティー・ブレイバリー被告（１８）は今月６日、ロンドン中央刑事裁判所で行われた審理で殺人未遂の罪を認め、勾留下で判決を待っている。
　家族はクラウドファンディングサイト「ゴー・ファンド・ミー（ＧｏＦｕｎｄＭｅ）」に治療支援のため設けられたページで、「私たちの小さな騎士が話し始めた！」と報告した。男児は「１音節ずつ途切れながら、断片的に」言葉を発し、手足も動くようになったという。その一方、まだ痛みが続いており、回復に時間がかかっていることを説明した。
　弁護人の法廷での陳述によれば、被告は人を傷付けるか殺すよう命じる声を聞いたと主張しており、警察の取り調べでは精神の健康に問題を抱えていることを「証明」したいと供述していた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】

〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2019/12/20-13:32）

A young French boy who was thrown off the 10th floor viewing platform of London's Tate Modern art gallery has uttered his first syllables, his family said.
The six-year-old suffered a broken spine, legs and arm in the attack, which happened in front of horrified visitors to the riverside contemporary art gallery on August 4.
Jonty Bravery, 18, pleaded guilty to attempted murder at a hearing in London's Central Criminal Court on December 6 and is in custody awaiting sentencing.
In a post published Wednesday on a GoFundMe page helping to pay for their son's recovery, the family said the boy has also regained some movement in his limbs.
Our little knight begins to speak! the family wrote.
He pronounces one syllable after another, not all of them, and most of the time we have to guess what he means but it's better and better. It's a wonderful progress!
But the family stressed he remained in great pain and that progress was slow.
As he begins to move, sensations come back and he feels more pain, above all during the night, which is very exhausting for everybody, but he is very courageous and we stay strong for him.
The boy fell from the viewing platform onto a fifth-floor roof below. Prosecutors at Bravery's last court hearing said it was extraordinary that he survived at all.
Bravery's lawyer Philippa McAtasney told the court that her client had autistic spectrum disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and was likely to have a personality disorder.
The court was told he claimed to have heard voices tell him he had to hurt or kill people, and that he said to police he wanted to prove he had a mental health problem.