Eric Chabrière was prosecuted for insults and public defamation by the daughter of the former leader of the Hospital-University Institute in Marseille.
by Luc Leroux (Marseille, correspondent)
He does not deny his belonging to the “close guard of Didier Raoult” who earned him the nickname “Sheriff of the University Hospital Institute”. Professor Eric Chabrière was assigned, Friday, January 6, before the Criminal Court of Marseille for “Insults and public defamation” by the daughter of Didier Raoult, Magali Carcopino-Tetoli, doctor of Public Assistance-Hospitals of Marseille (AP-HM ), and by her husband. In the fall of 2021, it had been the subject of numerous insulting and gravelly tweets, because it advocated good practices to combat covid and vaccination, opposed to treatment with hydroxychloroquine defended by Didier Raoult. M me
é> carcopino-tetoli had never mentioned publicly of his parentage.
The tweets of rare violence came from an account having as a pseudo “the professional” who multiplied the attacks against her and her husband, Xavier Carcopino-Sutoli, head of service at the North Hospital. “Magali, the ugly duckling of the family, unmasked. In a family of brilliant oaks, there are necessarily acorns …”, we read on one of the many tweets of the same vein, taken up in the direct quotation in court . The attacks on his functions as a doctor and his skills have earned him the support and functional protection of the AP-HM.
For the couple’s lawyer, M e Philippe Carlini, Eric Chabrière hid behind this account which displayed the color: the defense of IHU and the response to the detractors of Didier Raoult. The lawyer sees as proof that the hours when the two accounts were postponed were superimposable, that the same grammar and spelling mistakes emanated the tweets from the two accounts, as “a real signature”. According to unwanted testimony, the lawyer even assures that the two accounts had the same IP address. And when a Twitter user had asked “professional” in April 2021: “You are therefore well @Echabrière”, the answer had been: “yes yes”.
“I am not the Creator of this account “
“Dozens and dozens of people try to pretend to be me or to Didier Raoult but I am not the creator of this account. I assume my official account with his 66,000 subscribers”, defended himself Eric Chabrière at the defendant. A real tweeter machine, this biochemist had assigned himself to “give light to the Ihu who was attacked, harassed, defamed”. But only on his official account, he insists. As for the “Professional” account of which he made a real promotion, he found him “fun” because, parodying the poster of the film, the face of Jean-Paul Belmondo brandishing a gun was replaced by that of his boss at Ihu . “I do not know neither M me carcopino-ttuoli nor her husband, I did not know her existence, I only learned it when she filed a complaint against me,” he insured in court.
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