Frederic Dardel's lawyer confirmed he had been charged on Friday after being questioned over the scandal that forced the closure of the the Centre for Body Donations at Paris-Descartes University.
L'Express news magazine in November 2019 broke the story of what it described as a "mass grave in the heart of Paris." The report described "bodies by the dozen in an indescribable jumble. Here, a decomposing leg dangles. There, another damaged, blackened and riddled with holes after being nibbled by mice."Situated in Paris's historic Latin Quarter, the Centre for Body Donations was founded in 1953 and received hundreds of bodies a year before it was closed.
The magazine reported that one of the doors of the cold room was so rusty it no longer closed and that the air conditioning frequently broke down, forcing staff to incinerate some rotting bodies before they had been dissected.