students and staff of Sorbonne University call for the temporary suspension of the gynecologist from his professional activities

Students and staff from Sorbonne University call in a letter for the temporary suspension of gynecologist Emile Daraï from all his professional activities, franceinfo learned on Monday. This letter, which franceinfo was able to consult, is signed by Solidaires Etudiant.es SU, Les Fallopes, UNEF, CGT, SNCS-FSU, Union Syndicale Solidaires.

This letter was sent Monday, February 13 to the management of Sorbonne University and the signatories intend to read it at the beginning of the afternoon during the Board of Directors of Sorbonne University. Emile Daraï is indicted for “violence” on at least 32 patients. He is placed under judicial supervision, suspected of having carried out medical acts without asking the patients’ consent.

The signatories of the letter are moved by the fact that Emile Daraï “continues to give gynecological consultations at the Tenon hospital” and that he “is also still authorized to teach at Sorbonne University”. They continue: “As staff and students of Sorbonne University, we denounce the lack of action and stance on the part of the management of our university”. Following the AP-HP report, the gynecologist was dismissed from his post as head of department at Tenon hospital and educational manager at Sorbonne University.

According to the signatories, “the measures taken are not sufficient”. Namely the fact that the gynecologist must be accompanied by a nursing staff during his consultations. The gynecologist was recently authorized to resume his private consultations, as decided by the investigating chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal, Wednesday January 18. It is also authorized to conduct its public consultations. All take place at the Tenon Hospital in Paris.

“This case is not an isolated case”

Sorbonne University students and staff

Students and staff of Sorbonne University talk about a case that “is part of an omerta allowed by a hierarchical and patriarchal culture well anchored in the circles of medicine and French universities”.

The signatories of the letter continue: this case “is symptomatic of a hierarchy, an opacity, a corporatism of the medical organization to protect itself at the expense of the victims of sexist and sexual violence”. Therefore, they write, “We join the petition of the StopVOG collective to request the provisional suspension of Professor Daraï from all his professional activities in the public, private and university sectors, while the legal proceedings are ongoing, in order to guarantee the safety of all patient”.