The hospital worker in his thirties had received a violent blow, breaking two of his ribs and causing him to be out of work for five days.
Today, he says it is mostly the psychological wounds that remain. Almost two weeks ago, Alexandre Hagenauer-Letang, nurse, was struck by an ambulance driver when he asked for his health pass to allow him to enter the care center in Muret, near Toulouse. Still shocked, the hospital worker in his thirties still does not understand how the scene could have happened.
“I am marked to see that today you can assault a person for free in the medical field, or elsewhere for that matter, whatever. While I was just doing my job, I simply told him that it was not possible to go home because he did not have his complete vaccination schedule, so I invited him to go out, “he told BFMTV on Friday.
Another paramedic then takes over and everything seems to be back to normal at the entrance to the care center. But the first decides to return to the charge towards Alexandre to verbally attack him, and ask to see a person in charge:
“I had to get in the way because he wanted to go up to the offices. What would have happened if he had gone up to the offices? I don’t know. What I know, c ‘is that I received a violent blow in the thorax, which earned me two fractured ribs, “deplores Alexandre.
“I’m afraid to go back to work”
Result: five days of ITT, and trauma for the nurse. In the past, Alexandre says he may have encountered a certain animosity from other paramedics, tired of having to show off at the entrance to the care center when they have to work in an emergency. But he didn’t think the escalation would go as far as the blows:
“Am I dreading going back to work? Yes, I’m dreading seeing this person again,” he says. “He is still on duty, still takes care of vulnerable people and he is always in contact with caregivers. And I was surprised to learn that nothing had been done about me. The ARS was not there. not even aware, I made the report yesterday “.
The same evening, Alexandre had filed a complaint. Summoned in police custody, the ambulance driver in question recognizes the facts, and is summoned before the Toulouse court on November 3 for an Appearance on prior acknowledgment of guilt (CRPC).
If he accepts the facts, the penalty could go up to three years’ imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 euros for “violence against a health professional followed by incapacity not exceeding 8 days”.
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