Yasmina Kattou, edited by Gauthier Delomez with AFP 4:50 p.m., June 08, 2022

Lawyer Sarah Saldmann indicated that 30 complaints targeting nursing homes from the Korian group, in particular for "manslaughter", have been filed before a dozen prosecutors' offices in several regions of France.

On Europe 1, the representative of the private group assures that it was not aware of these complaints.

"Endangering the lives of others", "non-assistance to a person in danger" and "manslaughter": 18 families of residents of Ehpad from the Korian group have announced the filing of around thirty complaints against X. The private group is targeted everywhere in France since the parquet floors of 12 different regions have been seized, such as in Aix-en-Provence, Bobigny, Bourges, Marseille or Nantes.

The lawyer who represents Korian, Maître Daoud, confides to the microphone of Europe 1 that he was not aware of these complaints.

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“We learned them from reading Le

Parisien

,” explains the lawyer.

"These are painful files in which the families did not accept the explanations that had been given by Korian, following a complaint not criminal, but a complaint from a family member", details he.

With Europe 1, Maître Daoud ensures that the group is at the disposal of justice to answer all the necessary questions.

The group "ignores everything about the content of the complaints"

Korian reacted quickly, saying in a press release that the lawyer for the civil parties, Sarah Saldmann, had "not taken action at any time to formalize the complaints of its customers and thus assert their interests".

The group "is unaware of all the content of these complaints and therefore cannot make any comment" and recalls that "all serious situations brought to (its) knowledge are dealt with and systematically declared to the authorities".

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Me Saldmann was already at the origin of nearly 80 complaints filed in April in Nanterre against the Orpea group for similar facts, in the wake of the scandal triggered by the book-investigation

Les Fossoyeurs

by journalist Victor Castanet.

Most of these procedures - apart from those concerning clinics of the Clinea subsidiary - have already "been investigated", she said.