the Orpea scandal frees speech

For two weeks, the 3977 has not stopped ringing. This listening platform is dedicated to abuse of the elderly. The Orpea scandal freed speech. A wave of unprecedented testimonials. Anonymous listeners manage three times more cases than during the same period a year ago. “They were perhaps hesitant to talk about it, thinking it was normal, but now they dare”explains one of the switchboard operators.

For Geneviève, the controversy surrounding the Orpea establishments has awakened bad memories. For three years, his mother lived in an Ehpad of the group near Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin). “The buckets of ease were no longer emptied, the care was almost never carried out and the drugs, she had them every other day”, she explains. Asked, the Orpea group speaks of“an isolated phenomenon”.