Schliersee scandal files: Bavarian horror homes | Evening newspaper Munich
Miesbach / Eichstätt – The Miesbach District Office has withdrawn the Schliersee senior citizens’ residence. The end of September was over, but the case is far from over. The Munich II public prosecutor’s office is investigating.
How were the elderly in need of care treated? This question is at the center of the investigations, which run under the collective term “bodily harm” and are also directed against several former employees. According to senior public prosecutor Andrea Mayer, the authority is looking at 88 individual cases.
Senior citizens’ residence Schliersee: 17 unexplained facilities
The investigation complex also includes 17 causes with an unclear cause. The spokeswoman for the public prosecutor’s office does not want to give any details due to the ongoing proceedings, but she confirms that two corpses of former residents of the Schliersee senior citizens’ residence were exhumed as part of this investigation.
The Health and Care Committee of the Bavarian State Parliament will also deal with the processes in the home on Tuesday. There it was noted that the operator of the closed home, an Italian company, is taking legal action against the officially ordered closure. Wasn’t everything half as bad?
Neglected, malnourished and pumped full of tablets
The documents that were handed out to the members of the committee for the meeting also included a chronological list of all complaints that came to light, which authorities were involved or informed and what was done. There are hundreds of individual entries dealing with neglected, malnourished and over-pumped psychotropic drugs, lack of medical care for residents, bullying, theft and constant staff changes.
In May 2020, at the beginning of the corona pandemic, the head of the Miesbach health department pulled the rip cord and extended a criminal complaint. Only then, as can be seen from the chronology of the Ministry of Health, did the full extent of the grievances become visible. Bundeswehr soldiers were even deployed to provide supplies to the residents. The chronology also shows that complaints about lack of care have been the order of the day practically since the home opened in 2009 and increased over time.
There are further investigations against a home in the Upper Palatinate
As a result, the authorities have been involved again and again, including the Ministry of Health since 2020. In his final report, Minister of State Klaus Holetschek (CSU) came to the conclusion that the authorities involved had worked correctly in the case of the Schliersee senior citizens’ residence.
There is also a passage in the 13-page “supplementary final report” from the minister that states that. Somewhat claused it says: “There are currently several facilities in Bavaria that are to be seen in connection with an operating ban.”
A home in Burglengenfeld is also closed
How many there are cannot be inferred from the written declaration by State Minister Klaus Holetschek. However, a care facility with 55 places in the district of Schwandorf is mentioned. “At the time of the hearing on the operating ban on August 5, 2021, 32 residents were still being cared for in the facility. Even the specialist authorities involved could no longer get the grievances under control. The operator agrees to the inevitable closure at the end of September. According to AZ- Information concerns a home in Burglengenfeld.
What the “major deficiencies” looked like in concrete terms is not shown in the ministerial report. One clue that they must have been massive comes from the Amberg public prosecutor’s office. Authority spokesman Jürgen Konrad confirmed that investigations have been initiated against several people.
District of Eichstätt: Negligent homicide of seniors?
A noticeable accumulation of cases in connection with a corona outbreak in a nursing home in the Eichstätt district has called for the public prosecutor’s office. The police headquarters of Upper Bavaria North in Ingolstadt announced that there was an initial suspicion of negligent homicide in six cases.
Several apartments and a care facility – a total of six objects – were searched on Wednesday. Six residents of a retirement home in the Eichstätt district who were infected with the corona virus died within four days between September 20 and 24. This is the Caritas retirement home St. Josef in Denkendorf. Against the background of the pandemic situation and the associated hygiene measures, contact investigations and thus the possible transmission routes of an infection are of immense importance.
In the course of this research, suspicions could then arise that could not rule out possible misconduct by employees of the care facility, it was said by the investigating authorities. Numerous pieces of evidence have now been secured. The investigators of the criminal police hope this will provide further information, die to clarify the circumstances of death.
The home announced on Wednesday about the events: “In the room, the accusation that three employees of the retirement home was on duty on a weekend against everyone in the house and instructions violated the hygiene rules.” The Kripo is now examining a connection between the corona outbreak in September and non-compliance with the regulations. The Caritas Association for the Diocese of Eichstätt is working closely with the public prosecutor’s office to clarify the matter. “For reasons of tactical investigations, no further information can be given about what is happening,” it continues.