Original Source - Mail Online

Alain Panabière, who weighs 661lbs (300kg), has been trapped on the first floor of his house in Perpignan, southwest France, after a fall in July 2019. 

The 53-year-old could not be moved via the staircase because he could not pass through the door of his room due to his size.  

Since the fall over a year ago, Alain has been fed and washed by his brother Jean-Claude, and has been sitting on the floor for months after reportedly breaking his leg. 

A large-scale operation involving more than 50 people, including police, firefighters and medical teams, was under-way today following several weeks of preparation. 

A window of Alain's house was removed next to the street so that the patient could be moved horizontally through the gap onto a gondola suspended from the 100 tonne crane.

He was then lowered down to the ground in a specially-made bed before being transported to a local hospital by a special ambulance. 

Measures were taken to not only preserve Alain's health, but also to ensure the stability of the historic building. 

At the end of October this year Alain's lawyer Jean Codognes filed a complaint to local authorities for 'non-assistance to anyone in danger', according to Vosges Matin. The prefecture, in response, reportedly highlighted 'the uncooperative and volatile behavior of the Panabière brothers'.