CHRONIQUE D’UN ACCIDENT DU TRAVAIL
Au chômage, dans un village, Dany est enfin engagé par une assoc de réinsertion qui en principe recrute plutôt des cas sociaux, parfois alcooliques, drogués, ce qui n’est pas son cas : contrat de 6 mois, qui doit être renouvelé. Las, un mois après [il ne peut le dater précisément] il reçoit au visage une projection violente par engin. Ils sont alors dans la campagne, il dégage les branches derrière celui qui débroussaille. Pas grave croit-il.
Bien qu’un kyste se soit formé qui ne cesse de grossir, il bosse. 2 mois après, son visage est tel que les chefs lui ordonnent de s’arrêter car " il fait peur aux gens".. une chance. Entre en scène le Dr Béta puis, devant l’ampleur des dégâts, le Dr Béta’ qui opère, nettoie. Aucune analyse : un kyste dentaire dit-il. Et ça empire, fièvre, écoulement nauséabond. Coup de pot, Anne travaille au ménage d’un labo et la demande elle-même, bingo : un staphyllo doré. Deux opérations, cette fois par le Dr Delta de N qui extrait des VEGETAUX, épines mais doit ôter une partie de l’os facial. In fine, il a une lacune (une balle de ping pong) le visage légèrement déformé, fragilisé et se trouve à nouveau au chômage, la famille -3 enfants- vit de RSA et d’alloc.
Après un procès, il obtient la reconnaissance de l’accident du travail, de son handicap (20%) une rente (310E/trimestre) et le remboursement de ses frais médicaux (1800 € !). Mais, aide juridictionnelle ou pas, il a tout de même dû verser 300 € à Me O., son déplacement pour une audience où elle n’est d’ailleurs pas venue. Il s’est donc défendu seul. Il ne travaille qu’à temps partiel ou pas : un malade pouvant rechuter à tout moment est à la casse.
Il attaque alors le patron pour faute inexcusable : il n’avait pas de protection. Il bénéficie de l’aide juridictionnelle, Me O. le défend toujours sauf qu’elle est injoignable ; et cela dure .. 2 ans ! Or, au fil des ANNÉES les souvenirs s’estompent. C’est enfin le procès. Horreur ! Selon l’avocate du patron, il ne serait qu’un bon à rien alcoolisé, drogué, profiteur et ne cherche qu’à ruiner le généreux qui ne pourra plus tirer du trou d’autres ingrats parasites tels que lui s’il gagnait... Non seulement il est victime d’un accident du travail, handicapé mais le voilà en sus coupable d’être victime. [Quid du salaire et de la formation du généreux?] Viennent ses témoins mais les faits datent de 4 ans, ce sont des gens fragiles, ils ne se souviennent plus, s’embrouillent, on frise le sketch. Les deux chefs se contredisent, l’un assure qu’il n’y a jamais eu de chantier, carrément ! l’autre qu’ "il n’y a pas eu VRAIMENT de chantier"… [donc chantier tout de même !] Plus grave: le Dr Gamma, 6 mois après les faits a inscrit une date d’accident incohérente [un dimanche], Dany est plombé : le juge, dans le doute, ne peut condamner. L’extrême durée de la procédure lui a été fatale.
Il fait appel. Me O. lui réclame 1400 € en chèques non datés qu’elle enverra au fur et à mesure. Par la suite, il sera difficile de la joindre mais ils seront régulièrement encaissés. Et au bout de 2 ans soit 7 ans après les faits, vient le jour J et.. elle lui annonce qu’elle ne pourra plaider et devra faire renvoyer encore. C’est alors qu’une amie, après plusieurs essais, la joint enfin [après un mail dans lequel elle la menace d'avertir le bâtonnier] et apprend, ô stupeur, que le procès a bel et bien eu lieu EN SON ABSENCE à la demande du juge dit-elle. Une manip donc ou une erreur suivie d’une rare désinvolture qui pèseront lourd. Il perd encore évidemment.. et par la même occase, malgré sa demande d’attendre quelques jours, l’avocate va encaisser un dernier chèque, le mettant ainsi en interdiction bancaire avec agios.
Unemployed, in a little village, Dany is engaged by a boss specialized in reintegrating of long-term unemployed, sometimes alcoholic, addicts and so on.. But he is not! Misfortune, he has an accident (he was clearing brushes in the mountain with a machine and receive on his face a violent projection from it) but he don’t care, he continues to work, although an abscess that grows more and more on his face. Two months later, he has to stoop because he looks like a monster. The disagnostic’s doctor : it comes from a tooth, which he operates. Error. Then it is worse, fiever, pain.. The doctor never thinks to do an analysis.. But happily, Dany’s wife, yes! She is working as cleaning woman in a laboratory! Result : aureus staphyllococ ! So he is operated, this time by a real surgeon, two times, who extracts from the wound fragments of plants, spines and so on.. So it is evident: he caught these fragments tree months ago when he was “slightly” wounded during his work in the mountain. The boss says not at all, it is too old... But now Dany is handicapped and still unemployed: his contract was not renewed, and nobody want to engage an handicapped worker. So he survives (he has a family and tree kids) with social aids.
So he sues in justice his boss and wins : his handicap and work’s accident are recognized, he perceives a very small pension, 100 E/months.. But is still unemployed and in a very bad social situation. The boss’s fault is clear : Dany had no face’s protection, otherwise he would not be wounded. He wants to sue him again, this time because this “inexcusable fault” but he has no money. He obtains legal assistance.
A long long time to wait for him and he never can reach his lawyer.. and the trial date finally comes ! It is awfull: the boss’lawyer squarely insults him in front of his family : he is a lazy profiter of social assistance, an alcoholic and addict unkward and ingrate as all these loosers engaged by the generous boss who would be unable to help another people if Dany wins and so on… He is stunned, his wife too. His lawyer doesn’t tackles these vomit as she had to do, she seems a good friend of the other.. And his witnesses who come at his demand are fragile, a little confused, they doesn’t remember, the accident is ancient, 5 years, and about the two chiefs, one says that there never was a brushcutting site! and the other that there was no “really” brushcutting site meaning there was one indeed! The date of the accident which instantly did not seem serious is not sure. The doctor consulted after the analysis, five monthes after the facts had written an incoherent one (sunday) somewhat ramdomly.. So Dany lost : the judge cannot be sure of anything after all this time and with this contradictory evidences.
He decides to appeal. This time, he has to pay! His lawyer agrees several checks of 200 E that she will cash later one by one… And after that, she can never be reached, but his checks were regularly cashed .. The first trial was judged 3 years after the accident, this second, 5 years after, the third, 7 years after the accident ! During all this time, he survided, depressive, without work and without money.
Why all this time? He doesn’t know. His lawyer speaks of reports, every times reports, then she was pregnant and on maternity leave.. and so on. Then the trial day happens! But she calls him (for the first time!) and says that it is impossible for her to plead this day, so she would be obliged to request another report ! He is desesperate because he was waiting for this trial during 4 years but what can he does? Nothing except speaking to a friend, a journalist, who tries herself to reach the layer… in vain of course, but she sends to her a mail saying that she advises Dany to write to the barrister (the lawyers’s chief).. and the day after, she calls her... and annouces… O surprise! that finally (contrary to what he believed, meaning what she had said to him!) the trial was held, yes! in his absence. Why did she lied or she forgot to warn Dany? She says that it was the resquest of the judge who would avoid Dany’s presence (?).. Is it true? So he waits again.. one month.. and learns, not surprisingly, that he had lost. But, although he asked her to wait some days, she doesn’t forget to cash his last check, so she puts him in suspension of banking, with bank charges.
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