Two and a half years after the revelations of mistreatment of residents, the specialized establishment has begun a deep reconstruction work. On a daily basis, the care remains complex. Report
Published on June 29, 2024 at 08:00. / Modified on June 29, 2024 at 08:02.
The name has changed, the building too – it has moved a few meters – but the public has remained the same. In Geneva, the Mancy home, renamed the Collonge home in 2022, still welcomes a handful of adolescents with severe autism spectrum disorders and severe intellectual disabilities. Two and a half years after the investigation by Temps and Heidi.news on cases of abuse which took place between 2019 and 2021, the specialized establishment has begun extensive reconstruction work. For the first time, we were able to go there to see how the situation was evolving.
Children deprived of food, locked up, thrown to the ground, left in their excrement or dragged from one room to another by their clothes: the excesses of the Mancy home, opened in haste in 2018, caused a shockwave and multiple political upheavals. The name of the place was inevitably associated with mistreatment and the failure of complex care. Faced with young people suffering from serious pathologies, difficult to manage and who can be aggressive, some employees, educators and nurses, apparently overwhelmed, responded with violence. A crisis that had repercussions on the Medical-Educational Office (OMP), on which the establishment depends, and more broadly on the Department of Public Education (DIP).
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