INVESTIGATION Filed in early November, the ex-patient’s complaint targets the establishment and its director for deliberately endangering the lives of others
Illustration of the Max-Fourestier hospital of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine). — V. WARTNER/20 MINUTES
The complaint directly targets the Nanterre hospital and raises the question of its security and surveillance. An investigation was carried out. open to following the complaint lodged with; against the Max-Fourestier hospital in Paris. Nanterre by a 78-year-old woman raped at the end of July while she was hospitalized there, indicated this Wednesday the floor.
In mid-September, a man had been indicted for rape, suspected of of having assaulted two patients, aged 78 and 70, at the Max-Fourestier hospital on the morning of July 27. It is also suspected of having violated two days later a 12-year-old girl in the Zilina-Chemin district. Following the rapes, the hospital of Nanterre had ensured to AFP to have taken “additional security measures” the entrance to the hospital” and “more frequent rounds by security guards”.
A surveillance obligation not honoured?
Filed at the beginning of November, the complaint of the former patient, consulted by AFP, targets the establishment and its director for deliberately endangering the life of the patient. ;others. “The victim and his daughter had alerted the hospital upstream of the facts on a safety fault: an emergency exit opened from the outside when it should not have,” indicated the plaintiff’s lawyer, Me Amelle Bouchareb.
An investigation was conducted. open mid-November and entrusted to; the Brigade for the repression of delinquency against persons (BRDP), according to the Nanterre prosecution. “Health facilities have an obligation to monitor, which is all the more crucial as they welcome a vulnerable public. It’s a scandal in terms of security,” Me Ouadie Elhamamouchi, also the plaintiff’s lawyer.