The Paris prosecutor’s office has opened a preliminary investigation for “moral harassment” after the suicide of Professor Mégnien. His widow also filed a complaint.
Light will have to be shed on the circumstances of the suicide of Jean-Louis Mégnien, professor of cardiology at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital who opened up on December 17, at his workplace. The Paris prosecutor’s office on Wednesday opened a preliminary investigation for “moral harassment”. The teacher’s widow also lodged a complaint for the same reason, AFP said.
Investigators have a heavy mission. It will indeed be for them to understand how the atmosphere of the hospital could have harmed the mental health of Jean-Louis Megnien, and if the facts recently denounced in the press played a role in this tragic gesture.
An “impitotable” universe
For a few days, in fact, testimonies have been pouring in. Colleagues of Prof. Mégnien describe a “ruthless” universe at the HEGP. “Everything has been done to break it”, deplores one of them, quoted by the Parisian. According to these voices, often anonymous, the doctor was gradually, but violently, ousted from his functions.
“He was asked to leave the seventh floor – from which he ended up throwing himself – where he had an office, his consultations, access to the day hospital, then to do with a piece of secretary only”, can -on read in the daily. Returning from his nine-month sick leave, the lock on his office had even been replaced.
“Institutional abuse”
In this case, the management is severely questioned. A letter to Martin Hirsch, director general of the AP-HP, signed by the hand of Bernard Granger, head of psychiatry in Cochin, recalls the existence of “clan struggles of the Pompidou hospital”, which “constitute the breeding ground on which develops an institutional mistreatment embodied in the first place by the director of the hospital group, who has chosen her camp rather than being above the fray ”.
Professor Granger also said to be in possession of “many elements” allowing to put forward a form of moral harassment in the hospital against Jean-Louis Mégnien, “but not only”. Indeed, according to the psychiatrist, “in several other places of the AP-HP, there is a banal form of mistreatment, tolerated and underhand, but devastating”, he still writes.
The investigations were entrusted to the Brigade for the repression of delinquency against the person of the Parisian PJ.
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