The death of an 85-year-old man who reportedly succumbed to hypothermia after falling and spending nine hours sprawled and ignored on a bitterly cold street in central Paris has prompted grief, anger, and incredulity in France and beyond. John Lichfield, France Correspondent with The Independent joined us on the show to explain what had happened to Rene Robert.

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