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A clinically obese Frenchman, prevented from flying home from the US by British Airways, has been refused travel on a Eurostar train from London to Paris.
Kevin Chenais, 22, who weighs 230kg (36 stone), was flown back to London this week by Virgin Atlantic after 18 months of treatment for hormone imbalance in Minnesota.
But Eurostar said it could not take him back to France because of safety rules.
Instead, he is being taken across the English Channel by ferry.
Mr Chenais, who comes from Ferney Voltaire, a village in eastern France north of the Swiss city of Geneva, had been due to return from Chicago in October.
His father, Rene, told French media his son's health problems had started when he was six months old, preventing him from having a normal life.
He needed frequent oxygen and regular medical care.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25019422
Kevin Chenais, 22, who weighs 230kg (36 stone), was flown back to London this week by Virgin Atlantic after 18 months of treatment for hormone imbalance in Minnesota.
But Eurostar said it could not take him back to France because of safety rules.
Instead, he is being taken across the English Channel by ferry.
Mr Chenais, who comes from Ferney Voltaire, a village in eastern France north of the Swiss city of Geneva, had been due to return from Chicago in October.
His father, Rene, told French media his son's health problems had started when he was six months old, preventing him from having a normal life.
He needed frequent oxygen and regular medical care.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25019422