Relatives of victims demand accounts. Several preliminary investigations have been opened after complaints of manslaughter filed by the families of residents of three nursing homes in the Hauts-de-Seine, who died from the coronavirus, announced the Nanterre prosecutor's office on Tuesday.
The investigations, opened for "manslaughter", "failure to assist a person in danger" and "endangering the life of others" target establishments in Chaville, Clamart and Clichy-la-Garenne. "They concern the deaths that occurred between March 25 and April 12, 2020 of an 80-year-old man and three women aged 89 to 96," said the prosecution in its press release.
In Clamart, two complainants say they found "a deterioration in the conditions of care", from January 2020.
The Korian group defends itself
According to their complaints, the families have alerted numerous times to "the absence of the use of protective equipment, such as gloves and masks, and the failure to respect barrier gestures". In total, eight residents of this Ehpad, property of the Korian group, died of the coronavirus can be read in the complaints filed by the families.
Korian's lawyer, Emmanuel Daoud, welcomed the opening of these investigations and said he was certain "that it will be demonstrated that the staff of the Bel Air establishment in Clamart fought night and day to protect the residents with dignity, determination and courage ”. "These personnel find that the trial before them is terribly unfair," added Mr. Daoud.
10,000 deaths in Ehpads
These investigations are "a demonstration that our complaints are not fanciful," said family lawyer Me Fabien Arakelian. "At some point, we will have to ask ourselves the question of consolidating these complaints," he added. All these investigations, which also concern an establishment of the Domusvi group and another of the Villa Beausoleil group, were entrusted to the Brigade for the Suppression of Delinquency against the Person (BRDP).
Previously, another investigation had already been opened by the Grasse public prosecutor's office against another establishment of the Korian group after receiving a burst of complaints from families of residents who died at the La Riviera nursing home in Mougins, where 38 people died from the coronavirus. . In total, Me Arakelian claims to have filed complaints against eleven Ehpad almost everywhere in France.
Since the start of the coronavirus epidemic in France, more and more bereaved families have gone to court to report failures in the care of their loved ones. At the beginning of May, certain families met in an association called '' Collectif 9471 '' in reference to the number of deaths recorded in the Ehpad on May 5, 2020, the day of the creation of the association. In its data as of May 19 on the government site, the DGS indicates 10,308 deaths in the Ehpad.
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