In Grenoble, the two people suspected of having wanted to help a 91-year-old woman to end her life have been charged

The two activists of an association defending assisted suicide, suspected of having wanted to help a 91-year-old woman end her life in Grenoble, in Isère, have been indicted. They are indicted in particular for “illegal practice of the profession of pharmacist” and “for having provoked the victim to commit suicide by providing her with various products”, indicated Friday, August 16, the public prosecutor of Grenoble, Éric Vaillant, in a press release.

The two accused were placed under judicial supervision with a ban on contact with the victim and members of his family, a ban on engaging in activities within the association “Ultime Liberté” and an obligation to report weekly to the police station of their home. They are already known for similar acts. The victim, who wanted to commit suicide and was a member of the association, is currently hospitalized, added the prosecutor.

These two activists, an 81-year-old man and woman, were taken into custody on Wednesday, after a report to the police from the son of the 91-year-old person, who said they had tried to kill his mother. These two activists are suspected of having “given medication” to the applicant’s mother, who “swallowed them before throwing them up”according to the prosecutor.

On its website, the association “Ultime liberté” indicates that it is campaigning “for the freedom to choose the time, place and manner of one’s death” and the inclusion in the law of assisted suicide “when the person concerned is in a state where he can no longer communicate and he has written his advance directives”. The law currently does not allow for assisted suicide or euthanasia. A bill on the end of life, which should open up the strictly regulated possibility of assisted suicide, had begun to be debated by the deputies in the spring, but the dissolution has plunged the text into uncertainty.