Suspected of mistreatment of its residents, the Specialized Reception Center (MAS) of La Briancière in Ris-Orangis (Essonne), which accommodates people with multiple disabilities, is the subject of a preliminary investigation for “violence against vulnerable people” and “ non-denunciation of ill-treatment of vulnerable people, ”revealed
Le Parisien on
Monday, September 7.
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The opening of such a preliminary investigation follows the filing of a complaint by an employee of the establishment to the public prosecutor of Evry-Courcouronnes on July 21.
His accusations are heavy and numerous.
He denounces in particular the underestimation of pain and the refusal to treat some of his colleagues.
These are known as unchanged dressings, untreated wounds or residents left in critical medical condition.
"
We report the residents' problems to the nurses, but they
tell
us that we must give them a Doliprane, that everything is fine ...",
indicates a medical-psychological aid from the MAS to Le
Parisien.
The complaint also points to a total disinterest and deep neglect of some of the employees who abandon the multi-disabled residents of the MAS, to the point of refusing to change them, to serve them meals or to clean their rooms.
“
A majority of employees work like in the factory, they don't care about the residents.
I have already found my son with his pants soaked, because he hadn't been changed all day.
[...]
”, tells the mother of a resident in a testimony collected by the daily newspaper.
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The accusations go so far as to denounce the insults and beatings administered to the disabled by certain employees.
“Once, an employee said to a resident at the supermarket:
Come on or I'll kill you
.
It marked me
, ”says a former employee.
The few people who have tried to denounce this abuse in the past have apparently been prevented by
"a clan of ten people"
close to management, according to the same former employee.
Alerted several times by anonymous letters, Jacky Besson, the president of the Alterity association which manages the MAS, for his part told the
Parisian that
he had never believed these accusations, for lack of evidence.
According to the daily, the Transition cabinet, mandated at the end of 2019 to clarify the situation within the establishment, nevertheless underlined an absence of an employee framework because of excessive management turnover.
Dominique Naels, the director of the MAS de la Briancière, on sick leave for three months, has also been dismissed.
Contacted by
Le Figaro
, the current management has not responded to our requests for the moment.
