PARIS -- The son of actress Romy Schneider was killed Sunday when he climbed to the top of a wrought-iron gate and slipped, fell and was impaled on the spikes of a fence below.
Family friends Monday said David Meyen, 14, son of the Austrian-born actress and her first husband, German actor Harry Meyen, was spending the day with his grandparents, the parents of second husband Daniel Biasini, in suburban Saint-Germain-En-Laye.
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The child died during an operation to repair a perforated intestine.
