During the night of March 31 to April 1, 2019, 26 residents of the Ehpad La Chêneraie, in Lherm, in Haute-Garonne, were suffering from acute vomiting and diarrhea.
A food poisoning that claimed the lives of five residents and for which the judicial investigation is continuing.
After the custody of four people from the establishment last January, another person was heard under this status on Wednesday by investigators.
This is the former director of the Omega group reveals
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. Owner of the establishment until February 2019, he had sold it to the Korian group a few weeks before the tragedy.
Since the start of the case, lawyers for the families of the victims believe that there were breaches of hygiene rules.
And this, well before the change of hands of the establishment.
The nursing home had been the subject of two warnings a few months earlier from an organization responsible for ensuring good hygienic conditions.
“The locker unit called the" ladder ", which keeps dishes at temperature and prevents bacteria from developing, has never worked.
The staff did not have the appropriate equipment, although they asked for it on several occasions, ”one of them, Me Nicolas Raynaud de Lage, told us some time ago.
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