ABSTRACT
Mr Guy Couez had a heart attack on 20 January 1989 during the annual cross-country race held by the company of mobile security police units to which he belonged. He took sick leave and asked that his heart attack and the subsequent periods of sick-leave should be recognised as work-related so that he would be covered by the rules applicable to police officers injured in the execution of their duty. On 20 January 1992 the applicant brought proceedings in the Amiens Administrative Court to challenge the decision of the medical board refusing to regard his sick-leave as having been due to a work-related accident. On 28 June 1996 the Administrative Court quashed the decisions. On 18 March 1992 Mr Couez had also brought proceedings in the Amiens Administrative Court to challenge the decision sending him on compulsory unpaid leave of absence. His appeal to the Nancy Administrative Court of Appeal in respect of those proceedings was still pending. Comm found unanimously V 6(1).
