The prosecutor's office in Reims opened a preliminary investigation for attempted homicide after the complaint filed by the lawyers of parents Vincent Lambert, a quadriplegic patient in a vegetative state for almost 11 years, whose treatment was interrupted again last week, was learned Monday from judicial source.
The doctor Vincent Lambert, victim of a car accident in 2008 and hospitalized at the Reims University Hospital, committed Tuesday, July 2 a new stop treatment, effective since Wednesday evening and made possible by a decision of the Court of Cassation on 28 June. The medical protocol includes the stopping of hydration and nutrition by patient probe as well as "deep and continuous sedation".
"The death of Vincent is now inevitable," said Vincent Lambert's parents Monday.
The lawyers of the parents, fervent Catholics fiercely opposed to the cessation of the treatments, deposited on May 20 and July 2 a complaint for attempted murder on vulnerable person, according to a source close to the file. "They had already filed a complaint before the dean of the investigating judges who had not succeeded, "said a judicial source for whom this investigation has" no chance "to lead to prosecution.
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"The death of Vincent is now inevitable" and "we can only (resign) us," said his parents Monday in an open letter. Their resignation comes as Sunday, the father of Vincent Lambert had denounced, arriving at the CHU, a "disguise assassination" in progress.
After an unsuccessful attempt to stop treatment in 2013, the new doctor, Dr. Vincent Sanchez, initiated the procedure on May 20, stopped the next day at the request of the Paris Court of Appeal. But the Court of Cassation opened at the end of June the way to a new stop of treatments.