One of the 51 accused continues to work as a nurse | EUROtoday
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OOfficially, he went “on vacation”… In actuality, if he isn’t obtainable from Monday to Friday, for 4 months, it isn’t as a result of R. has gone to the opposite facet of the world. This fifty-year-old has been on trial since September 2 by the Avignon Assize Court, close to his residence, for an aggravated rape. He is likely one of the 51 accused within the Mazan rape trial.
According to our data, the person continues to apply between two weeks of hearings as a non-public nurse in Vaucluse. During the week on the trial, throughout the weekend on the sufferers' houses. His official workplace has closed however his rounds haven’t modified. Thus, he recurrently visits, once more in line with our data, the aged and minors – together with a disabled individual – to whom he offers care and washes.
A report despatched to the National Order of Nurses
The National Order of Nurses has not but taken any choice in opposition to him, regardless of a report despatched this week to look at his case… “It is really starting to get out, even among his patients,” whispers a supply near the case. “He is washing vulnerable people. The Order could at least have suspended him and banned him from providing care!”
Contacted by The Pointthe Order of Nurses indicated, this Friday, that it had realized “through the press”, on the opening of the trial, {that a} nurse was within the dock. No measures will probably be taken earlier than understanding whether or not the accused is discovered responsible. “Once the courts have rendered their verdict, the National Order of Nurses will be required, if necessary, to take appropriate measures, consisting in particular of referring the matter to the competent disciplinary chamber so that, if it considers it justified, this person can no longer practice his profession with patients”, replied the Order, specifying that its disciplinary chambers will sanction him “if they are referred to on the basis of sufficiently established evidence”.
Nurse claims to have been arrange by Dominique Pélicot
During the investigation, R. was recognized on Dominique Pélicot's sordid movies after going to the couple's home one evening in June 2020. He acknowledged his presence however however denies the notion of rape and claims to have been arrange, arguing that it was a “libertine scenario”. The nurse was positioned in pre-trial detention from September 2021 to July 2022, then referred to the assize court docket for rape, aggravated by the administration of a substance to the sufferer to impair discernment or management of her actions.
R., whose legal file is clear, feels that he’s “wrongly treated as a criminal”. His skilled report describes him as socially built-in and presenting a low criminological hazard. When contacted, his lawyer, Me Isabelle Crépin-Dehaene, didn’t want to remark, recalling the varied pressures suffered by the accused and their family after their identification was revealed on social networks by a feminist collective on the opening of the Mazan trial. The case has not completed having repercussions in Vaucluse, the place most of the accused come from.
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