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The public prosecutor’s office in Madrid eight years in prison for the former Director of the Department of Human Anatomy and Embryology II of the Faculty of Medicine
The public prosecutor’s office in Madrid eight years in prison for the former Director of the Department of Human Anatomy and Embryology II of the Faculty of Medicine of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) José Ramón Mérida Velasco, for inhuman conditions objects by occasion crowding of corpses.
The trial will take place next Friday at the Criminal Court of the capital. Specifically, the prosecutor asks for three for one crime against workers’ health and one for each of the five crimes against morality. The private prosecution, on behalf of the victims, sends a request to 21 years in prison and 264 thousand euros in compensation.
According to the prosecutor, the doctor for years forced the workers to provide their services “under conditions unhealthy, degrading, harmful and dangerous“.
As a result of the order of the Labor and Social Protection Inspectorate to stop all work in 2014, when the duties were clarified by the university administration, 534 corpses were removed from the basement.
With regard to civil liability, the prosecutor argues 66 thousand 619 euros (technician 1), 46 thousand 401 euros (technician 2), 77 thousand 103 euros (technical 3), 22 thousand 303 euros (technical 4), 21 thousand 832 euros (technician 5), and 10000 euros for (1,2,4 and 5) damages and 3 thousand for (3).
harsh conditions
The indictment denounces how Mérida subjected the workers to “torturous conditions”. unnecessarily humiliating which is out of scope.”
And that’s because for years systematically ignored “fair” demands of workers “while blamed and reproached them because of the overflow situation it caused without providing any solution.”
One of their complaints was that they were forced to provide their services in underground without ventilation that it lacked the most elementary hygienic conditions “to the point that the presence insects, worms and larvae surrounded by anarchically piled up human remains, immersed in a constant stench of decay.”
Merida, due to its position, was chief responsible management, control and supervision of the working conditions of laboratory and technical personnel.
“He fear to job loss, worsening of your physical and mental conditionthe impossibility of maintaining order in the workplace due to the overloaded working environment, the lack of respect and appreciation for the work they performed in humiliating conditions, plunged workers into hopelessness which caused changes in the perception of the reality around them in such a way that they accepted as an inevitable and normal situation, which objectively represented constant insult to their dignity like people,” the prosecutor’s office condemns
So, The defendant ordered the technicians the work they were supposed to do or tasked with cleaning and disinfecting surgical equipment, tables and surfaces.
However, a representative of the public ministry argues that the characteristics of the workplace and the circumstances in which the defendant supervised the labor activities of technicians “determined the creation serious risk to the health, physical and mental integrity of workers.”
Such circumstances were famous Merida “as well as the associated risks in connection with his condition as a doctor and head of the department of anatomy.” For example, technicians worked in the basement, “what lack of adequate ventilation therefore they were all subjected to the inhalation of gases.
Even the prosecutor’s office warns about it. there was no special to prevent the entry of vapors of the specified substance concentrates and does not apply to various
As regards the cooling chamber, where a large number of corpses were stored, when it broke down, the defendant ordered the technicians to remove from it between 40 and 50 bodies and that they leave them in the room be cremated.
“However, since it was impossible to proceed with the cremation of the bodies due to their large number, they remained in said room during the process.decay or decay‘ added the prosecutor.
Breaking the rules
To solve this problem, Merida ordered the installation of another engine, “but that too was not enough and layers of ice formed on the corpses which should have been taken out about four or five days before use, and after that they were reintroduced into the chamber during the decomposition process.
The premises, as stated in the indictment, did not comply with the workplace regulations, since “working they didn’t have a soulappropriate toilets, changing rooms or individual lockers.”
Neither educational use what he did with the corpses was the most appropriate, because the bodies entered the basement.protocol in actionwithout identification and without reference to their origin or suffering from infectious and contagious diseases.
“This lack of sanitary control of access to the bodies,” the prosecutor’s office explains, “established that the workers were left exposed to biological, infectious and/or parasitic riskswhich were exacerbated by the lack of proper control over the health of technicians.
But the fact is that, in addition, workers They wore the wrong clothes for their tasks. and sanitary conditions were “unsatisfactory”. So much so that in January 2014 they began to appear larvae, worms and insects.
The indictment also shows that the technicians performed their duties in a “permanent” presence. strong smell of decaywho manually and repeatedly moved “loads ranging in weight from 70 to 120 kg” or who were ordered to “put the bodies into vats one and a half meters deep and remove them from the bottom for their use or destruction.”
Refrigerator fault
They did not even have instructions and books on the operation of the crematorium. To the first complaint, motivated by the malfunction of the refrigerator compartment due to the excess of corpses and the unpleasant smell that it emitted, the answer was this: “The doors are closed and nothing is said.”
When he was asked about the need to take the corpses to another site, the answer was:it was very expensiveand the request to stop the influx of corpses due to lack of space was not answered.
On May 12, 2014, through the secretary of his department, the defendant told the technicians to tie up the males, that he was very angry with everyone, that everything will remain the same, and those who are not happy will leave.
Also, referring to the publication in the press of photographs of the workplace, he stated that if he knew who was prepare“, says the prosecutor’s office.
Finally, when Mérida found out that on May 20, 2014 she would have her first visit from the Labor and Social Security Inspectorate reprimanded the technicians his refusal to cooperate with him in the tasks of destroying corpses and poisoning effects.
(Information Europe Press)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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