Justice had been seized of 34 requests questioning the responsibility of the State in the prevention and management of the initial phase of the health crisis.
Le Monde With AFP
The State committed a fault, not now a sufficient stock of surgical masks, before the epidemic of COVID-19, then suggesting that their port was useless, estimated, Tuesday, June 28, The administrative court of Paris .
“The State has committed a fault by refraining from constituting a sufficient stock of masks allowing to fight against a pandemic linked to a highly pathogenic respiratory agent,” said the court in its decision, considering, on the other hand, that this fault could not be judged at the origin of COVID’s specific cases. He thus rejected the requests for compensation from the victims of the epidemic.
“contradictory with the available scientific data”
Furthermore, the court judged that “government declarations indicating, at the start of the health crisis, that it was not useful, for the general population, to wear a mask were at fault, taking into account Their contradictory character with the available scientific data “.