Puy-de-Dôme: suspicions of ill-treatment of disabled children in a home, three dismissed employees and three laid off

Three reports to the public prosecutor triggered three dismissals, and a staff strike, which refused to cover up their harmful working conditions.

An investigation was opened after the report of ill-treatment more than a year ago – Photo DR One month after the press conference organised by agents of the Ehpad d'Attichy to support William Devey, former aide-soignant revoked after having denounced in 2023 a case of ill-treatment, the case may have reached a turning point. On 28 April, William Devey was interviewed in the gendarmerie of Attichy in the framework of an investigation opened by t…

In the Puy-de-Dôme, reports of violence against young people with disabilities caused a shock wave in a home in Vertaizon. Three employees were dismissed, three were laid off, and a strike broke out in reaction. Against the background, working conditions deemed very degraded by the staff. Three reports in three months It was a first alert at the end of January that triggered everything. An employee testified of abuse suffered by children at the …

"We made a first report at the end of January after an employee's revelations" on acts of ill-treatment attributed to some colleagues, explained to AFP Myriam Viala, the Director General of Adapei 63 on which the Medical Educational Institute (IME) in question is based.