Hermit sees daylight again after twenty years

grasse - A white man whose body was covered with scabs and dirt removed from a house in the French town of Grasse. The 61 - year-old man has been sitting there for the last twenty years in his darkened room until his mother in her eighties could not stand it anymore and turned on the emergency services .

The man would not come out of his room and the mother brought him his food through a crack of the door. However, they began to fear that he would commit suicide .

The man threw himself under the newspaper Nice- Matin on the cops and firefighters who entered his room. " His room was very dirty, the curtains were drawn , he wore long , very dirty and it was repulsive polluted , '' said a police spokesman . The man is clearly confused state brought to the hospital .