The correctional court of Paris, judging from the September 23, laboratoires Servier, and the Agency of the drug, heard this Monday the last argument.
more than 6,500 people who are civil parties, of which at least 4600 victims “direct” Mediator, according to the lawyers of different parties. The correctional court of Paris, judging from the September 23, laboratoires Servier, and the Agency of the drug in the case of the scandal health, heard on Monday, the last argument to the thousands of civil parties.
“It is almost more than one billion euro of compensation requested”, has assured the bar Jean-Christophe Coubris, which represents 2600 civil parties, including 600 “victims by ricochet”. His firm claims and also payment of the “225 million” in compensation for moral damage but also the anguish of former consumers of the Mediator, responsible for hundreds of deaths.
A hundred of the health insurance funds, which have supported the repayment of the Mediator, asked more than 450 million euros in damages and interest to repair the “scam” of laboratoires Servier.
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“Ever the Mediator should not have been marketed”
Put on the market in 1976 as an adjuvant in the treatment of diabetes and largely hijacked as an appetite suppressant, the Mediator has been consumed by approximately five million people. “Finally, the history of the Mediator is so simple : it is a product that you go wrong to call a drug, unnecessary and will very quickly prove to be dangerous, with risk to life and yet it has not been withdrawn from the market” prior to November 2009, a summary Jean-Christophe Coubris.
At the end of this “historic trial”, there has to Jean-Christophe Coubris clear : never (the Mediator) would have to be marketed”. It is taken as some of his colleagues to the “lies” of the firm and its attitude of “denial”. It is claimed that the laboratory Servier, which are pursued in particular for “aggravated tort of deceit” and “homicides and involuntary injury”, to have knowingly concealed the properties anorectic Mediator and have hidden its toxicity. They are always defended.
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The national security Agency of the drug (MSNA, former Afssaps), which appears to “murder and manslaughter” by negligence, for being late to suspend the drug, despite warnings as early as 1995 on his dangerousness, acknowledged their share of responsibility and will not be seeking the release.
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The court, which will issue its decision in 2021, the civil parties were told to wait for “an exemplary punishment”. “When you’re playing with the health as it has been for so long a time it is necessary to pay”, launched Jean-Christophe Coubris. The prosecutor takes his orders on Tuesday and Wednesday. The defense will argue from the 29th of June.
