Despite strong opposition from unions and staff and a petition with 40,000 signatures against his arrival at the Toulouse University Hospital (Haute-Garonne), the medical intern convicted of sexual assault on students in Tours filed an appeal against his suspension. This will be examined on November 21 before the Toulouse administrative court. A demonstration was to take place this Monday, November 4 in front of the Purpan hospital at the call of the unions but the suspension of this 26-year-old student by the Regional Health Agency led to the cancellation of this action.
“We deplore in this appeal (carried out by internal) a lack of respect for the expression of the vast majority of professionals from Carcassonne and Toulouse but also from the entire country, the lack of respect also for all the victims of this individual but also other attackers a few days before November 25, international day against gender-based and sexual violence and in the middle of the Pelicot and Depardieu trial, indicate the CGT and Sud unions. How can we defend that since these acts did not take place in the hospital setting, they would not have consequences on medical practice? These were students from his class and even so, a public hospital official, whether a doctor or not, must be of total probity.”
The Tours court had sentenced this intern, at the time a student in this city, to five years in prison for acts of sexual assault which took place between 2017 and 2020. The prosecution having appealed his sentence to criminal and the procedure of the University of Tours having been launched in October, this intern can officially continue his course, which shocks the hospital unions. He must be retried on appeal in early 2025 for five sexual assaults.
If the unions welcome the launch of the disciplinary procedure by the Faculty of Medicine of Tours, even late since it was initiated four years after the events, they point out the profound work to be accomplished for the prevention and condemnation of sexual and gender-based violence. in hospitals. The trade union organizations are calling for a new demonstration on November 21, the day of the summary hearing at the administrative court.
