Almost two weeks after the release of Victor Castanet’s investigative book The Gravediggers, several Ehpad find themselves under the threat of new complaints. This is the case in the Loiret, Tuesday, February 8, where the prosecution indicates to France Bleu Orléans the opening of an investigation for suspicions of mistreatment of a resident of an establishment of the Korian group in La Ferté-Saint-Aubin .
The daughter of a resident of the Château des Landes, in La Ferté-Saint-Aubin, filed a complaint last December. Her father, suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and admitted to the establishment in October 2020, died on July 28, 2021. The director of the Ehpad, in office for four months, recognizes on France Bleu Orléans “malfunctions”. “We apologized on behalf of the group. Now we have seven to eight caregivers during the day, for sixty residents, and three at night, compared to two previously.”
In Le Mans, four ex-employees of an Ehpad of the Orpea group hope for their part the reopening of an investigation, closed without follow-up in 2020. They had tried to alert on their working conditions and care for residents, reports France Bleu Maine.
In Le Mans, the lawyer for four ex-employees of the Orpea Sablons residence hopes “a follow-up” for their complaints which had not been successful in 2020. According to France Bleu Maine, the complainants denounced poor working conditions and mistreatment against residents. They then describe stocks of empty diapers on the 15th of the month, the absence of detergent to wash the sheets or nights when there were only two of them to take care of 90 residents.
For Master Alain Dupuy, “there was a side of whistleblowers and screaming in the desert and never being heard”. According to him, their file is “again under consideration” by the Le Mans public prosecutor’s office. However, he wonders whether, given the number of complaints in France, “a specific center in Paris” do not go “centralize records”. “That could be considered.”
The Korian and Orpea groups are targeted by several accusations of abuse in several of their nursing homes in France. Lawyer Sarah Saldmann says in particular that she received “Several dozens” of testimonials. She ensures that she is preparing joint collective action against the two private groups at the heart of the scandal sparked by the book-investigation. The Gravediggers.