Sandrine Bonnaire accuses a nursing home in Charente-Maritime where her mother was a resident until her death in August 2023 of “medical negligence”. And his complaint is taken seriously since the Saintes public prosecutor’s office has decided to open a preliminary investigation. “At the beginning of March I received a complaint from the Bonnaire sisters through their lawyer. This is a complaint against X,” Benjamin Alla, public prosecutor in Saintes, told AFP, confirming information from the daily South West. The preliminary investigation was opened on March 18 and entrusted to the La Rochelle judicial police, added the magistrate.
At the end of last year, Sandrine Bonnaire announced her desire to file a complaint, accusing the establishment for the elderly of having neglected cleaning, the provision of toilet paper or even hydration for her mother. “It was medical negligence which led to her death (…) My mother had no illness, she was 84 years old”, declared the actress in the newspaper The Parisiansaying he is speaking out “so that the care of our elders changes”.
“Shame on the government which did not react”
“Thank you to the justice system which retained our case. An investigation is underway,” she said on Sunday, Mother’s Day, on her Instagram account. “Shame on certain private and public nursing homes. Shame on the government which did not react or respond to my speech in November. »
According to the CCAS of Saintes, which manages this 90-bed nursing home, Sandrine Bonnaire’s mother resided there for three years before being hospitalized in Saintes, where she died on August 23.
“Malfunctions noted”
In December, the Regional Health Agency (ARS) in Nouvelle-Aquitaine affirmed that neither it nor the Departmental Council had “received any report on this situation”. The ARS nevertheless said it was monitoring the establishment, inspected in 2015 and 2022, and that “the dysfunctions observed” had “been the subject of notable but insufficient improvements”.
This legal procedure comes two years after the scandal of the private group of retirement homes Orpea, following which the executive announced a strengthening of controls on nursing homes, public and private.