Remember, in 2019, the Express reveals the existence of a real mass grave, in the heart of Paris, rue des Saints-Pères, at 5e floor of the premises of the René-Descartes Faculty of Medicine, the temple of medicine in France.
It describes real scenes of horror.
Out of respect for the deceased and for their families, the weekly decides not to publish the unbearable photos. The university finds itself at the heart of a scandal for its negligence towards the bodies, entrusted to science.
A year ago, the former president of the establishment, Frédéric Dardel, was indicted for “harming the integrity of a corpse”.
To prevent this from happening again, the government promised, at the time, to legislate.
Thus, in application of the bioethics law, adopted in 2021, new rules for the conditions of body donation to science were published on April 28, in a decree in the Official Journal.
About 350 donations per year
Several notable changes come to modify the old…