A murky event that fuels the debate about security in health centers in France. Two french old womenaged 93 and 95, died this month after being sexually assaulted in its room in a hospital in Argenteuil, in the northwest of the outskirts of Paris. The attacks occurred on October 14 and one of these nonagenarians, 93 years old, lost her life that same day after suffering from dizziness. The other, 95 years old, died four days later, according to the french press.
The main suspect has acknowledged the facts and his case has generated controversy as he was not imprisoned preventively.
The police arrested that Saturday at the geriatrics ward of Victor Dupouy hospital to Samir B., a 44-year-old Frenchman who did not work at the center. The 95-year-old woman reported that the man had touched her, penetrated with fingers and that he had masturbated in the room. The other victim could not testify as she suffered from senile dementia, but in her sheets they found remains of semen of the arrested. He admitted touching the nonagenarians and masturbating, but denied penetration with his fingers.
The first victim suffered dizziness a few hours after the sexual assault and they were unable to revive her. The second lost her life four days later. Although the two died of natural deaths, the case has generated shock and indignation in the neighboring country.
The person responsible for the sexual assaults, who already had a history for sexual crimes, appeared in court on October 16. The judges decided not imprison him preventively. A decision that generated criticism, both within the judicial body and the security forces. He is currently under judicial control awaiting trial, scheduled for November.
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This case has fueled controversy over hospital safety in France. In 1999, a nurse was murdered in Saint-Etienne, in the center-east of French territory. And it is not the first time that the Argenteuil hospital has recorded a sexual assault on a patient.
Since 2005, the Ministry of Health has been counting crimes in these places through specific observatories, which operate according to a declarative logic. “In recent years, there was an increase in the declaration of violence. For what is this? Perhaps due to the fact that paramedics are more encouraged to report them by groups and unions,” he points out. diary L’Humanité the sociologist Déborah Ridel, an expert on this issue.