The owner of the Tchin Tchin Wine Bar in Bordeaux, “was referred” this Wednesday “for indictment by an investigating judge on charges of injury and involuntary manslaughter,” indicates public prosecutor Frédérique Porterie. The Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office requested “his placement under judicial supervision with a ban on carrying out, as manager or operator, any activity related to catering”.
The restaurateur was placed in police custody on Tuesday, as part of the investigation into botulism contamination last September at the Tchin Tchin Wine bar in Bordeaux. Sixteen people became ill after eating canned infected sardines. “One of the victims, of Greek nationality, died at his home in Vincennes (Val-de-Marne) on September 12” and “the fifteen other victims developed various pathologies,” recalls the prosecution.
The survey also focuses on patient care
The Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office “immediately” opened an investigation into charges of “involuntary homicide, involuntary injuries due to deliberate failure to comply with an obligation of caution imposed by law or regulation, endangering the lives of others, failure to provide assistance.” to anyone in danger and the sale of corrupt or toxic foodstuffs.”
The expertise and technical examinations carried out “as well as the multiple and careful investigations carried out in the Bordeaux region” made it possible “to highlight various breaches of the rules of health hygiene by the manager of the establishment, in particular with regard to the preparation of canned goods artisanal products sold to customers,” said the prosecutor’s office this Wednesday. The “indictment of the manager of the establishment” led to his custody on Tuesday.
The investigation “also sought to reconstruct the medical care of patients in the Bordeaux and Paris regions”, adds the prosecution. Investigations into this aspect of the case “will continue under the authority of the investigating magistrate. »