March 10, 2017.
According to our colleagues from Figaro, the judicial investigation relating to the plectrum would have been truncated, with the aim of relieving the State of its responsibilities in this affair.
Clear customs health and political authorities
Le Figaro had access to the minutes of the investigation into the Mediator, this famous drug from the Servier laboratory, used as an appetite suppressant that killed between 500 and 2,000 people. However, according to our colleagues, the judicial investigation would have been manipulated, for ” clear the health and political authorities “. A serious accusation, but based on facts that are at the very least indisputable.
Nowhere in these minutes does any responsibility of Afssaps (which became the French Agency for the Safety of Health Products in 2012), which was however responsible for authorizing or not the marketing of this drug. Always according to the Figaro, several searches would have been carried out at the former boss of the Afssaps, Jean Marimbert, but only 14 months after the opening of the investigation.
The Medicines Agency protected by justice?
But this long delay is not the only suspect element. The Afssaps would indeed have been informed in advance of these searches.. Moreover, these searches would not have been very thorough: “ Telephone interceptions also reveal that the gendarmes made minimum seizures. », Add our colleagues. ” So much so that the staff of the ANSM is surprised. Thus, one of the managers wonders why out of the 1,000 e-mails contained in her computer concerning the Mediator, only three were seized.. “
This overwhelming observation is not very reassuring, given the scale of this health scandal. Last July, the Mediator was indeed found responsible for unwanted side effects by the Versailles Court of Appeal, which ordered the Servier laboratory to compensate the victims. If new scandals of this magnitude were to break out, would the Medicines Agency still be cleared of all suspicion?
Marine Rondot
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