2023-12-06 18:48:29
A restaurateur was indicted in the investigation into cases of botulism in Bordeaux. The owner of the Tchin Tchin Wine Bar in Bordeaux, “was referred” this Wednesday “for indictment on charges of “injuries and involuntary manslaughter”, “endangering the lives of others”, “non- assistance to people in danger” and “selling corrupt or toxic foodstuffs” announced the public prosecutor Frédérique Porterie. The Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office requested “his placement under judicial supervision with a ban on carrying out, as manager or operator, any activity related to catering”.
The restaurateur was placed in police custody on Tuesday, as part of the investigation into botulism contamination last September at the Tchin Tchin Wine bar in Bordeaux. Sixteen people became ill after eating canned infected sardines. “One of the victims, of Greek nationality, died at his home in Vincennes (Val-de-Marne) on September 12” and “the fifteen other victims developed various pathologies,” recalls the prosecution.
“Breaches of health hygiene rules”
The Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office “immediately” opened an investigation into charges of “involuntary homicide, involuntary injuries due to deliberate failure to comply with an obligation of caution imposed by law or regulation, endangering the lives of others, failure to provide assistance.” to anyone in danger and the sale of corrupt or toxic foodstuffs.”
The expertise and technical examinations carried out “as well as the multiple and careful investigations carried out in the Bordeaux region” made it possible “to highlight various breaches of the rules of health hygiene by the manager of the establishment, in particular with regard to the preparation of canned goods artisanal products sold to customers,” said the prosecutor’s office this Wednesday. The “indictment of the manager of the establishment” led to his custody on Tuesday. The penalties incurred range from two to five years in prison and a fine of 45,000 to 600,000 euros.
The survey also focuses on patient care
Jade Dousselin, the lawyer for the client who lost her life and her seriously intoxicated husband, pointed out “the fault of a chain of responsibilities which, at each level, failed”, citing the owner of the restaurant but also the services hospital workers “who did not play their role in such situations”.
The lawyer also denounced in a press release the “failure of the services of the ARS (regional health agency, editor’s note) whose serious dysfunctions did not make it possible to warn health professionals in time so that the worst was avoided. “.
The judicial investigation “also sought to reconstruct the medical care of patients in the Bordeaux and Paris regions”, adds the prosecution. Investigations into this aspect of the case “will continue under the authority of the investigating magistrate. »
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