Paris court recognized the pharmaceutical company SERVIER guilty in the unintended murder of hundreds of people who made the tablets produced by it. Reports about it Deutsche Welle.
Verdict is noted that the services of the Servier Laboratories in an unintentional murder, unintentional causing harm to health and fraud in aggravating circumstances is proved. According to the prosecution, Mediator slimming medicine was the cause of death 500 people, and a total of a total of 2000 people could affect the death.
The court fined the company for 2.7 million euros. Her former executive director Jean-Philippe Seta (Jean-Philippe Seta) received four years of the conditional period and should pay a fine of 90.6 thousand euros, as well as millions of compensation for victims, reports Euronews. The case also appears to the National Medical Safety Agency and Medical Safety (ANSM) of France. He will have to pay 303 thousand euros of a fine for a conspiracy in order to mask the danger of the drug.
“Despite the fact that they knew about the risks that were subjected to [Consumers MediaTor] for many years, (…) They never took the necessary measures and thus deceived [people],” said the Chairman of the Criminal Court Sylvie Daunis (Sylvie Daunis). According to her, the company “has undermined confidence in the health system.”
The trial in this case began in September 2019. It became one of the largest in the history of France in the number of plaintiffs (2684), lawyers (376) and court hearings (110). The lawyers of the victims argued that the doctor and president of Jacques Servier (Jacques Servier), who died in 2014, knew about the potentially fatal side effects of the medication, but consciously hid them. SERVIER itself claims that he did not have evil intent, but simply was in the ignorance of MediaTor effects.
The drug originally intended for the treatment of diabetes, for 33 years, was widely appointed as an suppressor of appetite. For the first time he scored anxiety in 2007 pulmonologist Irene Frason, published a large-scale study. It said that the drug causes cardiovascular insufficiency. ANSM banned its sale in 2009 after numerous complaints and research on his harm.
Several years ago in France investigated cases of birth of children with a fully or partially absent upper limbs due to pesticides. The world also has a widely known scandal with talidomide. Because of this, the drug-sleeping bag, which women in many countries took during pregnancy, 8-12 thousand children were born with deformities from 1956 to 1962.