Urban: three caregivers assaulted by a patient's family in a clinic

Two people were presented to the Lyon Public Prosecutor's Office on Saturday 5 April for an immediate appearance. A mother and her son are suspected of insulting and then assaulting health-care personnel as well as police officers. The events reportedly took place in a clinic in Villeurbanne on Thursday night.

The attackers blamed the caregivers for the waiting time for the care of their loved ones. Staff members received insults, threats and beatings.

Staff members of the Medical Clinic in the suburbs of Lyon were reportedly subjected to insults, threats and beatings, and two people were arrested.

On Thursday evening, family members of a patient who found the waiting time too long are taken from the staff of the Villeurbanne Medical Clinic. Two people were placed in police custody.

Caregivers of a clinic in Villeurbanne, in the suburbs of Lyon, were assaulted by family members of one patient and two people were placed in police custody, said the prefecture on Saturday 5 April...

The vice-president of the "Health at Risk" collective referred to the assault of the caregivers of a clinic in Villeurbanne by the family of a patient