The French Red Cross was sentenced for "manslaughter" by the court in Rouen (Seine-Maritime) on Tuesday.
The association was judged as a legal person after the death of an octogenarian in a nursing home which it manages.
The structure is fined 10,000 euros and will have to pay 250 euros to each child of the victim, reports France Bleu Normandie.
It must also display the court decision for a month in its premises in Paris.
Left unattended
In 2019, an 82-year-old retiree was admitted to the Elbeuf nursing home, in an Alzheimer's unit.
But the resident had entered a technical room and had drunk the contents of a cup left behind.
It contained soda which had seriously burned the octogenarian.
The latter had died of her injuries.
The victim's family had decided to sue the Red Cross for a lack of surveillance.
Indeed, the service in which the patient was accommodated had to be protected and controlled.
"We must denounce the problems and the shortcomings," the retiree's daughter told local radio.
According to
Paris Normandie
, the association will appeal its conviction.
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