A restaurateur in the dock.
This Monday, a head of establishment from La Roche-sur-Yon in Vendée was sentenced to 18 months in prison for
“manslaughter”
.
According to the media France Bleu Vendée and Ouest-France, the 59-year-old restaurateur would also have been banned from holding the position of manager of a commercial and industrial company.
The court did not go easy on it, and for good reason.
In 2019, a certain Anna, a young 21-year-old student, died following her visit to the Yonnais restaurant.
His death is believed to have occurred following anaphylactic shock.
The spring roll eaten by the victim contained peanuts, a food to which the young woman was allergic.
The restaurateur had not taken care to mention it in the menu.
A restaurant already closed due to lack of hygiene
For those close to the young woman, this omission must not go unpunished.
“Anna must not have died for nothing.
Restaurateurs must realize that allergies kill
,” protested the victim’s father-in-law in the columns of Ouest-France.
Sentenced to a fine of 20,000 euros, the restaurateur will be required to compensate Ana's parents to the tune of
"several tens of thousands of euros"
, indicates
Le Parisien
.
Well before Anna's death, the restaurant was already being prosecuted for its repeated failures to comply with health regulations.
Pinned out for its questionable hygiene, the establishment had been closed on multiple occasions by the Fraud Repression, specifies Ouest-France.
This tragedy is reminiscent of that which occurred in Bordeaux a few months earlier, where several customers of a wine bar had developed a serious form of botulism after eating home-made canned sardines.
Here too, the investigations made it possible to highlight
“various breaches of health hygiene rules by the manager of the establishment”.