Frédéric Dardel, former president of Paris Descartes University

Paris Descartes University and two of its authors have already been tried in this case. The former president of the University of Paris Descartes, Frederic Dardel, was indicted on Friday 4 June, “Attack on the physical integrity of the dead” In investigating the improper conditions for preserving corpses given to science at the Center du Don de Corps (CDC), confirmed Monday in Scientist The Public Prosecutor’s Office in Paris, confirming the information received from the French news agency (AFP).

Then from the University of Paris – a new entity resulting from the merger, in January 2020, between Paris Descartes and Paris Diderot – and the enumerators, the indictment of Mr Dardel is the fourth known in This file was revealed in an article published at the end of 2019 in the weekly newspaper Express Evoking a mass grave made up of the remains of thousands of people who have donated their bodies to science.

Dilapidated buildings, rotten remains devoured by rats, suspicion of commodification of bodies … These discoveries prompted the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Frédéric Vidal, to order the closure of “French Anatomy Temple”, which was founded in 1953 and which receives several hundred bodies every year.

In June 2020, an administrative investigation estimated that the University of Paris Descartes was responsible for ‘Grave Ethical Violations’ In the Department for Disease Control.

The report specifically mentioned a وذكر Loss of reference points (…) both between the preparers and the stakeholders” On the corpses asked about a “the will to harm or harm the corpses” from “Some preparers”.

The indictment was brought to the University of Paris on 15 April. One hundred and seventy relatives of the deceased filed a complaint against X with the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office.