A complaint filed on Thursday, April 10 for “moral harassment, mortal violence, involuntary homicide and endanger the person” with the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) for 19 people, caregivers and widows or widows of caregivers, against three ministers in practice, as the lawyer announced by the lawyer in charge of the archive.
This follows several suicides that occurred in the hospital environment in a context of deterioration of working conditions. Labor, Health and Solidarity Ministers Catherine Vautrin And Esborre Higher Education is attacked, like the delegate Minister responsible for health and access to care Yannick Neuder.
The information was confirmed in BFMTV of a judicial source. Catherine Vautrin’s entourage did not want to make “comments at this stage”, while the other two members of the government in question were not expressed on the issue.
Why are we talking about a “wave of suicides”?
The complaint cites as an example of three establishments, located in the Bas-Rhin, in Hérault and the Yvelines, which “know a wave of particularly worrying suicides, without any implemented measure, which participate in an institutional denial.”
A 54 -year occupational health nurse, for example, hung in his workplace in the Alsacia Nord Public Health establishment in Brumath in January 2023, leaving two letters, one for the labor inspection, reports the world and France Inter.
A nurse from the Béziers Hospital Center (Hérault) committed suicide on June 3, 2024, after four years to alert her suffering. In a letter, “she calls management and says that her suicide must make it possible to protect the other nurses so that they do not live what she has experienced,” her husband said with the radio, in reference to exhaustion and depression.
A situation that also affects health professionals at the top of the hierarchy.
The head of the emergency rooms of the Group of the Territorial Hospital (GHT) of the Nord of Yvelines, “sedated” in his office in September 2023. According to the complaint presented, “in August and September 2023, he worked 37 days in a row, with only three days of rest, days and nights.
In addition, public assistance: Paris hospitals (AP -HP) is the subject of a complaint about “institutional moral harassment”, underlines the AFP.
What are the three criticized ministers?
The judicial approach made by caregivers and relatives of deceased persons aims to denounce these “institutional harassment” practices that can lead to suicide.
“The hospital sector has experienced a great crisis for many years, aggravated since around 2012-2013, which despite many particularly disturbing warning signs, including suicides, have never been corrected, on the contrary,” writes the lawyer Me Christelle Mazza in a summary of the complaint we could consult.
There is also a “fully degraded institutional mode in the mode of institutional operation”, as well as repeated cases of “totalitarian and unequal management”, “forced labor outside any regulatory framework”, request of the personnel under a “grip mechanics to illegally organize excessive work” and “threats”.
According to the complaint, the working conditions of the nursing staff have deteriorated again since the beginning of the Cavid-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020.
Faced with “the organized impunity against the authors of the facts”, the question of the intentionality and criminal responsibility of the ministers is made. “The alerts rose by file individually or systemically they are completely ignored,” is specified.
· What is “Jurisprudence France Telecom”?
Therefore, Christelle Mazza requests the application of “Jurisprudence France Telecom”, in reference to the conviction of two former leaders of the group (which became orange in 2013) by the Court of Appeals of Paris in September 2022 for “institutional moral harassment.”
“Jurisprudence France Telecom must be imposed on ministers as in any commercial manager in the name of the principle of equality before the law, in particular when there are such attacks on the integrity of the person,” reacted to the AFP.
“Any commercial manager who would implement massive and repeated restructuring policies as in the public hospital with consequences in working conditions would already be convicted and the closed company,” continues the lawyer, already very committed to suicidal files in France Telecom.
The Cassation Court rejected the appeals of the two convicts in January.
According to her, “the actions” that knowingly “a corporate policy that aims to degrade the working conditions of all or part of the employees in order to achieve a reduction in the workforce or achieve any other objective, either managerial, economic or financial, or that has such degradation”, can characterize a situation of institutional moral harassment.
Is the complaint with the ministers admissible?
On June 14, a first commission known as requests from the Court of Justice of the Republic will analyze the complaint filed last Thursday against the three ministers to study their admissibility.
This is a filter aimed at determining whether the complaint requires going to an investigation committee or if the file is not further. It is likely that the acts of the request commission are not resorted, as specified in article 14 of the Organic Law of November 23, 1993 In the jurisdiction.
The CJR is the only jurisdiction trained to continue and judge government members for crimes committed in the exercise of their functions.
Source: BFM TV
