Translation of "nurse for the mentally handicapped " (English → French) :

12. Believes that a common minimum standard should provide for a degree of protection of procedural safeguards that adequately reflects the vulnerability of certain groups of persons who are at a particular disadvantage in terms of asserting their rights, owing for example to age, infirmity, physical or mental handicap or illiteracy, and that minors should at all events be included within these groups; considers attention should be drawn to their vulnerable situation by these persons themselves, law enforcement officials or the defence lawyer at the commencement of proceedings from the first time the defendant comes ...[+++] into contact with a law enforcement official, submitted to the judicial body for consideration and form the subject of monitoring within the criminal proceedings; considers that it should be the duty of all officials to draw attention to the vulnerability of such persons from the point of arrest and their initial questioning and that it should at any event automatically be taken into consideration as soon as it becomes apparent and, in particular, that appropriate medical assistance should be guaranteed for anyone who appears or declares themself to be in a precarious state of health and that specific safeguard instruments should be established for anyone appearing to be vulnerable owing to their mental or emotional state;

13. Believes that a minimum common standard should provide for a degree of protection of procedural safeguards that adequately reflects the vulnerability of certain groups of persons who are at a particular disadvantage in terms of asserting their rights, owing for example to age, infirmity, physical or mental handicap or illiteracy, and that minors should at all events be included within these groups; considers attention should be drawn to their vulnerable situation by these persons themselves, law enforcement officials or the defence lawyer at the commencement of proceedings from the first time the defendant comes ...[+++] into contact with a law enforcement official, submitted to the judicial body for consideration and form the subject of monitoring within the criminal proceedings; considers that it should be the duty of all officials to draw attention to the vulnerability of such persons from the point of arrest and their initial questioning and that it should at any event automatically be taken into consideration as soon as it becomes apparent and, in particular, that timely medical assistance should be guaranteed for anyone who appears or declares themself to be in a precarious state of health and that specific safeguard instruments should be established for anyone appearing to be vulnerable owing to their mental or emotional state;

In Sweden, people who would once have resided in institutions for mentally handicapped and/or mentally disabled people now, in large measure, live instead in their own homes, with the result that many of these people are no longer part of a social community and have instead been isolated in their flats or become homeless and out on the streets.

(c) those who are vulnerable as a result of their mental or emotional state (for instance the mentally handicapped, those suffering from a psychiatric condition such as schizophrenia, persons of subnormal IQ and persons with a disability on the autistic spectrum)Defendants with a low IQ, low reading age or a poor understanding may be more likely to make damaging assertions, including false confessions, at the police interview stage [57].

In no case must the death penalty be imposed on those who are minors at the time the act was committed, on pregnant women or the mentally handicapped.

This report and its accompanying amendments would like to impose rules to prevent forms of selection, based on criteria of health or handicap, on sharks such as the insurance company, Axa, which has multiplied the contributions paid by parents of mentally handicapped children by a factor of ten.