The ex-election La République en Marche was the subject of two complaints for controversial words on masks and vaccines against COVVI-19.
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The disciplinary chamber of the regional council of the Order of Doctors of the Grand-Est announced, Friday, November 25, the suspension for one year of the medical activities of the former deputy of the Bas-Rhin Martine Wonner , training psychiatrist and” covidosceptic “. It was the subject of two complaints for controversial remarks on masks and vaccines against COVID-19.
“This decision is completely scandalous. I am extremely and deeply worried about freedom of opinion and freedom of expression in our country,” she reacted to the France-Presse agency, making starts from his intention to appeal.
“I knew it would be a political decision. Did ordinal justice have legitimized to summon me? The whole question is there. In any case, that gives me all the energy necessary to continue to fight on the level Politics. “
The former deputy, elected under the banner of La République en Marche in 2017 before being excluded from the parliamentary group in 2020, had been convened in early November by the regional body after two complaints filed in 2021 by the collective no Fakemed – which aims “the promotion of medicine based on scientific evidence” – and the National Council of the Order of Doctors (Cnom).
“Responsibility for the ethical level”
“It’s a good decision,” reacted Doctor Jean-Christophe Breton, member of No Fakemed. “This is the second elected official sanctioned by the disciplinary chamber, this confirms that a declaration outside the Parliament engages responsibility at the deontological level. But there is an appeal, it will therefore be necessary to wait for the new decision.”
On appeal, it is in the national disciplinary chamber that it is up to decide. It is chaired by a professional magistrate, state councilor, and made up of assessors, doctors elected within the order.
During the audience in early November, the complainants criticized M me wonon for promoting “erroneous information” and disseminated “care protocols” against the COVID “without scientific foundation”, based in particular of ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine, on her Twitter account, where she presents herself as a psychiatrist.
according to the defense, she was expressed as a deputy
They argued that parliamentary immunity did not apply for the remarks made by the ex-deputy outside the hemicycle because she “used her quality as a doctor to express her opinions”, especially when She went to rallies denouncing the wearing of the mask or that she maintained that the PCR tests gave false results.
According to Defense, Martine Wonner expressed herself as a member of parliament, not as a doctor, a profession that she had not exercised since her election in 2017, although she has remained registered with the Departmental Council of the Order doctors from Bas-Rhin.
“Madame Martine Wonner, after having suffered ignoble attacks when she was deputy, is today dirty by a decision which undermines not only to her honor, but also to her probity and which calls into question the freedom of ‘Expression in principle, but even more in the context of his parliamentary function, “indignant his lawyers in a press release.
On November 4, the disciplinary chamber of the Order of Doctors in Burgundy-Franche-Comté had for its part pronounced a ban on the exercise of nine-month-old medicine firm against the radiologist Alain Houpert, senator Les Républicains de Côte -Dor, for “ethical faults”.