Europe 1 with AFP 10:23 p.m., April 04, 2022

Nearly 80 complaints from families of residents were filed Monday before the Nanterre public prosecutor's office against the Orpea group, in particular for "endangering others" and "manslaughter", lawyer Sarah Saldmann told AFP. , confirming information from the daily Le Parisien.

Nearly 80 complaints from families of residents were filed Monday before the Nanterre public prosecutor's office against the Orpea group, in particular for "endangering others" and "manslaughter", lawyer Sarah Saldmann told AFP. , confirming information from the Parisian.

These individual complaints target the group of private nursing homes for acts of "endangering the lives of others", "non-assistance to a person in danger", but also for "involuntary homicide", "violence by negligence" and for "flight".

Thirty nursing homes concerned

Contacted Monday by AFP, the Nanterre prosecutor's office was unable to confirm receipt of these complaints.

About thirty nursing homes are concerned by these complaints, especially the "Le Corbusier" establishment located in Boulogne-Billancourt and the "Bords de Seine" in Neuilly-sur-Seine, particularly targeted by the book-investigation "Les Fossoyeurs" of the journalist Victor Castanet.

"I continue to receive reports of abuse every day, the dysfunctions persist, nothing has changed," Me. Sarah Saldmann told AFP.

Since the publication of the book in January, the ARS IDF has carried out 90 inspections within accommodation establishments for dependent elderly people in the Ile-de-France region, with 707 Ehpad of which 19% are public, 33% private for the purpose of non-profit and 48% private for-profit.

Orpea promises changes

In a report published last Tuesday, the ARS also imposed measures on the “Bords de Seine” nursing home.

Its management has been ordered to reorganize its day and night shifts within three months.

These directives are based on the observation of malfunctions.

Asked by AFP last Tuesday, the Orpea group assured that it would implement these changes "as soon as possible" and presented its "apologies to the residents and families".

Furthermore, following the investigation reports of the General Inspectorates of Finance (IGF) and Social Affairs (IGAS), the government took legal action, on the basis of article 40 of the code of criminal procedure which obliges all authorities to report criminal acts of which it is aware.