Untouchable: the true story that inspired a box office hit ..!

By Nigel Farndale
05 Sep 2012

The second thing you notice about Philippe Pozzo di Borgo is his smile – it is engaging and generous.

The first is his wheelchair.

The 61-year-old French aristocrat and former director of the Pommery champagne house,
has been in one since a paragliding accident left him a quadriplegic in 1993.

His has a wing mirror, a computer control panel that can do everything from open windows to
operate his phone, and it is, he says, the fastest in the world, capable of 9mph.

Abdel Sellou, his “guardian devil” of 10 years, arranged for it to be souped up so that they could race in it, with him on the back.
This is one of many amusing episodes that feature in Untouchable, a film about their unlikely friendship.

Another concerns a favourite game of theirs: Abdel would speed through Paris in Philippe’s Rolls-Royce,
until the police caught them. Abdel would convince the police that the reason they were speeding was that
Philippe was having a seizure. Philippe would play along. The police would then escort them to the nearest hospital.


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