Overview
- Her daughters told AFP she died at 57 a week after she was found unconscious at a Paris pool and taken to Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital.
- She vanished underwater while swimming at a private sports club in the 9th arrondissement, and another swimmer brought her to the surface.
- Firefighters provided on-site aid before she was rushed to the hospital, where doctors stabilized her and placed her in a medically induced coma.
- The Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation to clarify the circumstances and has reported no signs of criminality so far.
- Born in Marrakech and raised in Nice, she broke through in 2001 with Mathieu Kassovitz’s The Crimson Rivers, later appeared in Netflix’s Marseille, had disclosed prior brain and heart surgeries, and had planned to direct her first feature in September with TF1 Studios.