Published on: 04/28/2022 – 6:51 p.m. A judicial investigation has been opened in Nanterre against the Orpea group suspected of mistreatment in its nursing homes, the prosecution announced on Thursday. The investigations also relate to suspicions of financial offences. The government had also announced that it intended to require Orpea to reimburse public grants allegedly diverted from their purposes. Four months after the publication of the book “Les Fossoyeurs”, the group of private Ephad Orpea is the subject of a judicial investigation, opened in Nanterre, on suspicion of institutional mistreatment or financial offenses, indicated, Thursday 28 April, the prosecution. This investigation was opened after a report from the government at the end of March. An administrative investigation commissioned by the State had indeed revealed “serious malfunctions” in the management of the establishments. The government had also announced that it intended to require Orpea to reimburse public grants allegedly diverted from their purposes. of public fundsThe judicial inquiry, opened between April 22 and 27 and entrusted to the gendarmes of the Versailles Research Section, relates to suspicions of institutional mistreatment and financial offences, in particular embezzlement of public funds, specified the Nanterre prosecutor’s office. She was joined to investigations, already underway since February, for “forgery and use of forgery and violation of labor legislation by abusively resorting to fixed-term contracts”. Contacted by AFP, Orpea assured that it was “at the disposal of justice” and wanted to “cooperate fully in the smooth running of the investigation”. Previous complaints will be studied. investigations, also entrusted to the national gendarmerie, also relate to a good “part of the complaints” filed in early April 2022 by a lawyer from the Paris bar, Me Sarah Saldmann. The rest is still “under study”. “I am delighted with the opening of an investigation but I am waiting to see what happens to the other files”, declared to AFP the lawyer who specifies that around thirty Ehpad are concerned by these “70 complaints” for “endangering the lives of others” and “involuntary homicide”. The investigators must also look into “other procedures whose prosecution was previously seized and targeting the same group”, added the public prosecutor’s office. “It is now time for justice to get to work and in complete independence”, reacted to AFP Me Fabien Arakelian, representative of several families in procedures already open in Nanterre and elsewhere in the country. With AFP