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"Mr President, in Britain a man suffocated to death his 40-year-old brother who had Huntington's Disease. He pleaded guilty to culpable homicide and the judge set him free. In a residential institution in Belgium, disabled people have been abused by carers and health workers, physically beaten and their money taken and used by staff. In a residential home in the Netherlands, five elderly people with dementia were hit, spat at, kicked and called names by three nurses. In Spain, a 44-year-old disabled woman was confined by her parents to a cellar six feet deep from the age of four. Social workers knew about this for 25 years. In Bulgaria, children in a home for intellectually disabled people were tethered to their beds in winter and left to freeze at night when the heating was turned off to save money. Fifteen children - a quarter of the residents - died. A man from Venice in Italy with mental health problems was habitually locked in his home when his mother went out, leaving him alone. When fire broke out he found the front door locked and died of suffocation from smoke inhalation. In Germany a 55-year-old man with learning difficulties and impaired sight was attacked on his way to work by two skinheads and beaten and trampled to death. The youths told the police that 'he was unworthy of life'.
As Mr Gahler has just stated, the members of the PPE-DE Group in this Parliament voted against Mrs De Keyser's admirable report in committee and some threatened to oppose it in plenary, because they say that these examples of abuse against disabled people do not constitute a breach of human rights. Shame on them!"@en1
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