Toussaint der Markarian died in 2017, after being a victim of four unexplained fractures in his Hauts-de-Seine EHPAD. His family, whose lawyer points to “negligence” or “abuse”, request reparation.
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“When does the death of a parent or a grandparent become a Cluedo?”, Léonard der Markarian wonders. His grandmother passed from the armchair bed and the armchair in bed, without being able to speak or walk, in his room at the Ehpad Le Clos des Meuniers, Bagneux (Hauts-de-Seine), establishment of the Orpea group, where she Entered 2013. On January 17, 2017, Toussainte der Markarian, 84, did not get up.
At 9 o’clock, a caregiver finds that his left knee is tiled, distorted, evoking a possible fracture of the femur. More than four hours later, an ambulance deposits it at Saint-Joseph Hospital in Paris. An endless deadline given its condition. Radios reveal a quadruple fracture, one on each tibia and on each femur. Operate? She would not survive with anesthesia. Morphine does not calm his pains. With the agreement of his family, the doctors decide to sedate him until his death on January 24th.
How did the legs of Toussaint der Markarian been broken? The mystery was at the heart of the pleadings, Thursday, April 21, at the Nanterre Court, during the trial by civilized against Orpea by the son of Toussaint, Eric der Markarian, to obtain reparation. He asks 1 million euros. Master Christian Charrière-Bournazel, Eric der Markarian’s lawyer, immediately indicated that his client had not waited for the release of the book of Victor Castanet the graves (Fayard, 400 pages, 22.90 euros), to see the “Negligence, abuse” suffered by his mother at closed millers. Theft of clothing, covered urine bed, lost denture, within the establishment, not refunded. Failure to find it, M me der Markarian gradually ceased to eat. It is in a state of severe denutrition when it dies in the hospital. Its weight had increased from 50.8 to 42 kilos in a quarter.
For the past five years, Eric der Markarian smashes against the wall of Orpea’s silence against the questions he poses on the circumstances of the quadruple fracture of his mother. In the absence of explanations, he seized justice in 2018. The Nanterre Court appointed an expert whose report was given to the hearing on Thursday. None of the caregivers present on January 17, 2017 at EHPAD did not go to the convening of the expert, who had called them to testify. “It has been discovered that half of them had left the EHPAD,” slides Mr. Der Markarian.
Hypothesis “unrealistic”
Although devoid of documents or testimonies providing evidence of its conclusions, the author of the report considers that, concerning the fractures of M me der Markarian, “the most likely, and likely, is a fall “,” in connection with a lack of precaution of the EHPAD team during care or change “.
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