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Orpea, a giant struck down by a journalistic investigation

2023-01-22T21:37:46.677Z


BIG STORY – On January 26, 2022, the book-investigation Les Fossoyeurs shed light on abuse in nursing homes. A cataclysm for Orpea, considered until then as a model of its kind.


““Already, there was this terrible smell of piss, from the entrance.”

Excerpts from Les

Fossoyeurs

, an investigation into the business of old age.

When he receives this alert on his smartphone, on the evening of Sunday January 23, 2022, Philippe Charrier is flabbergasted.

The president of Orpea, number one of Ehpad, does not remember having heard of such an investigation.

His group, his financial practices and the mistreatment of residents of his nursing homes, all of this is however the subject of Les

Fossoyeurs

, the book by journalist Victor Castanet, of which

Le Monde

is preparing to publish the good sheets.

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If he senses that he will have a subject to manage on Monday, Philippe Charrier is far from imagining the scale of the disaster to come: a media, political, legal and financial crisis of an unprecedented scale in France for a group listed in Sotck exchange.

This will end up costing him his job and forcing Orpea to place himself under the protection of the Nanterre commercial court, in an attempt to escape the…

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Source: lefigaro

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