The managing director of the Mutual Hospital Group (GHM) of GrenobleAn important establishment in the metropolis, he was placed in police custody on Monday, on suspicion of illegal interest-taking and embezzlement of public funds, announced the Grenoble parquet.
Director of the Avec company, Bernard Bensaïd was arrested on Monday morning in Paris and “will be brought back to Grenoble” be heard, the prosecution said, returning the communication of other elements at the end of the police detention.
A demonstration planned in front of the hospital
This arrest comes as an employee rally is scheduled for Monday morning in front of the plant, at “to denounce a new loan of 2.7 million euros which will be allocated by the GHM to the commercial group Avec”, the FO union said in a statement.
“This new loan will bring loans to 10.7 million euros” à Avec since 2022, e “To date, only 1.5 million have been repaid”says FO, for whom With “is in a catastrophic financial situation” et “risk of dragging in his fall” by GHM.
The latter, which includes two clinics and a cancer institute, was taken over in October 2020 by the private group Doctegestio – trade name of Avec. It then had 1,000 employees, 280 doctors and 400 beds, and had made 35,000 emergency visits in 2019.
Announced in September 2019, this sale has raised opposition from employees and users collectively. They had started a cooperation project rejected by the final buyers.
They had also called on the local authorities to assert their right of first refusal of the walls to prevent the transaction. In January 2021, the metropolis of Grenoble thus announced the pre-emption of the properties to oppose the takeover by Doctegestio, which was already effective.
