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The university hospital of Reims, in the north-east of France, began today to apply the protocol authorizing the death of Vincent Lambert, a 42-year-old man in a vegetative state after an accident in 2008, and whose family was victimized by the decision not to keep him alive.
The mother, Viviane Lambert, denounced to the channel "BFMTV" that she discovered with an email that she received this morning: "They kill him without saying it, they are monsters."
One of the steps against euthanasia in France, with Lambert's parents in the lead.
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His lawyer, Jean Paillot, described as "inhumane" the means of communication and announced an urgent judicial appeal to the Paris court of appeal, saying that the decision of the medical team " it was not definitive, "reported the EFE news agency.
A spokesman for the hospital explained that the policy of this center, for reasons of confidentiality, should not publicly disclose details of particular cases, although some details of the procedure have been disclosed.
The hospital of Reims, where Lambert is.
The doctor in charge of the team that is treating him in Reims, Vincent Sanchez, had already announced on May 11 that he would begin to apply it this week and that it could take several days.
In April, the team decided to put an end to what she considers a "therapeutic cruelty", after almost eleven years of treatments.
The parents, who are conservative Catholics, appealed to the Conseil d'Etat, the highest court of administrative justice in France, which ruled in favor of doctors, and then before the European Court of Human Rights. Man, who also informed the hospital professionals. .
One of the steps for the case Lambert, Italy.
However, the UN International Committee for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has requested that care be maintained at Lambert, who, although being in a vegetative state, does not need artificial respiration. .
Faced with the situation of parents and two brothers, who refuse to interrupt the care that keeps him alive, his wife, Rachel, and a nephew mobilized for the doctors to stop treatment.
Some politicians also participated in this debate, such as the leader of the far right, Marine Le Pen, and the Republican candidate in the European elections next Sunday, François-Xavier Bellamy, who aligned themselves with the parents and have asked the intervention of the president, Emmanuel Macron.
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