The Public Prosecutor of Epinal, in the Vosges, announced that he had opened four legal information for manslaughter.
MO12345LEMONDE With AFP
Seven complaints were filed at this stage as a result of patients of patients deemed suspicious by their relatives at the Remiremont hospital (Vosges), said on Saturday January 21 at Agence France-Presse (AFP ) The public prosecutor of Epinal, Frédéric Nahon. “I opened four judicial information against X for manslaughter,” detailed the magistrate, plus another for “involuntary injuries”. The prosecutor added having received another complaint for manslaughter, for which an opening of judicial information is “very likely”.
Contacted by AFP, Nancy Risacher, lawyer who follows six of the seven complaints, specifies that she writes an eighth complaint for manslaughter. Only one of his clients has yet been heard by the investigating judge, she added. M me risacher also signals having been contacted by “several other people”, whose cases it examines to see if other complaints could be filed.
“Rules Art “
Contacted by AFP, the lawyer for the hospital, Frédéric Berna, deplored a “media threw” around the file, deeming “daring” to carry out a campaign against the hospital when we know the difficulties today French hospitals “. “There are internal processes [at the hospital] which for the moment demonstrate that there are no particular faults, and if there are criminal investigations, we will be explained (…) calmly Before the judge, “he added.
At the beginning of January, elected officials from the Vosges had supported the teams of the Remiremont hospital center, denouncing “press campaigns” having “targeted” the establishment. At the end of December 2022, the hospital management said he was “sorry for the situation” and had put forward a “care according to the rules of the art”. According to the director, Dominique Cheveau, these complaints will help shed light on the facts: “We only ask to understand what happened.”