The Reims Court of Appeal rejected the request of Vincent Lambert’s parents to transfer their son from the Reims University Hospital to a specialized establishment.
This is a new episode in the Vincent Lambert affair. Le Figaro reports this Friday that the forty-something in a vegetative state for eight years will not be transferred to another hospital than the University Hospital of Reims (Marne).
The Court of Appeal of this town in the Great East today rejected the request of the parents, Viviane and Pierre Lambert. Traditionalist Catholics, both want their son to leave the establishment where he has been hospitalized since 2009, after a traffic accident.
A family war
For them, Vincent Lambert should be placed in a specialized medical establishment where he would receive more physiotherapy and swallowing rehabilitation care.
As a reminder, this family has been divided over the fate of this patient for many years. Some of his brothers and sisters as well as his wife, Rachel Lambert, appointed as guardian by the courts, ask for the cessation of care – undertaken on several occasions by the University Hospital of Reims – while his parents and others of his brothers and sisters sisters are fiercely opposed to it.
The parents of Vincent Lambert, who see in this umpteenth development “a judicial mistreatment”, will appeal in cassation, according to Le Figaro.
“It is obvious that we will go to cassation, because this situation is implausible”, confirmed to Agence France Presse (AFP) Jérôme Triomphe, one of the lawyers of Pierre and Viviane Lambert.
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