The Promenade des Anges association wants to “understand what happened”. According to Me Virginie Le Roy, one of the advisers of this association of victims of the July 14, 2016 attack in Nice, several bodies of victims were “stripped of their organs”. The association then called to testify, during the trial of the attack which opens on Monday, the prosecutor François Molins, at the time in charge of terrorism cases at the national level, to obtain “answers” on these organ removals, according to her, “unjustified”.
“We have never obtained an explanation justifying the need for these massive levies, and therefore we have had the prosecutor Molins cited, who will come to testify before the Assize Court and from whom we are awaiting answers to understand what has happened. past, said the lawyer, Saturday in Nice, during a press conference. There are several victims, including children, of whom we noticed a posteriori, and after their burial, without the families having been informed, that they had been stripped of their organs, only during the autopsy of the samples had been carried out”.
About fifteen victims would be concerned
According to Me Virginie Le Roy, these removals “were not justified” and “intervened in a totally disproportionate way” since sometimes “all the organs were removed”. According to Stéphane Erbs, co-president of the association Promenade des Anges, who lost his wife in the attack, about fifteen victims would be affected by these organ removals.
The only explanation that was then given to the parents of the victims concerned had been by the Nice prosecutor’s office. The latter had indicated, according to this lawyer, that these samples had been taken to protect themselves from a possible legal action on the terms of hospital care. “It is incongruous because the requisitions that ordered the autopsies were taken in the context of a terrorist attack, and these requisitions had only one purpose, to determine the causes of death,” she said. argued, adding that, according to her, these requisitions clearly specified that the removal of viscera should only be carried out if necessary.
“This explanation makes no sense, or else everyone who leaves the hospital is stripped of a few attributes to feed the legal files of hospitals”, further remarked Me Le Roy.
From Monday, eight defendants are tried before the special assize court of Paris for this terrorist trial scheduled to last until mid-December.