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The scandal of the drug depakine continues. After being indicted for "unintentional injuries" and "aggravated deception", the company Sofani is now indicted for "manslaughter".
The world revealed in an article that the pharmaceutical group Sanofi Aventis France has been indicted for manslaughter. Last February, Safoni was at the heart of a scandal because of aggravating circumstances on people who had consumed dekapine. It was in 2016 that the case broke following the mobilization of Apesac. Taking this drug puts pregnant women at risk of having birth defects for their unborn babies, information that the Safoni company is accused of having withheld. To date, more than 7,000 victims have been resensed in France. In addition, 160 deaths have occurred after taking this drug.
Since this recent indictment for manslaughter, the pharmaceutical company has denied all responsibility for these deaths. AFP announces: "The group, in a communication sent to AFP, claims to have "complied with its information obligations and disputes the merits of these prosecutions. (…) The laboratory seized the investigation chamber in order to contest its implementation. examination. All of these elements in no way prejudge the laboratory's responsibility. "
The whistleblower Marine Martin, president of the Association for the Assistance of Parents of Children Suffering from Anticonvulsant Syndrome, spoke to France 3 of the process put in place for an investigation to manslaughter takes place: "We encouraged families who had lost a child to file a complaint and join the sixty families, including mine, who had already taken this step. " This investigation could do justice to all these families deemed victims of this drug. All the more so as Sanofi refuses any compensation to the alleged victims. Finally, 79 families filed a complaint against the pharmaceutical company for manslaughter.
We are waiting for our big criminal trial, as there was for the Pick
But some families are already almost certain not to benefit from justice, given that the drug has caused, in some cases, a forced abortion: "He You should know that from a legal point of view, for there to be manslaughter, the child must be born and breathed. This means that families who have had to undergo a therapeutic abortion will not be able to file a criminal complaint. And it's going to be very painful to have to explain to them … " explains Marine Martin. The escandal of depakine is often compared to that of the trial against Mediator, a drug that has also claimed many victims. Whistleblower Marine Martin herself explains: "I can't wait to be in court, in court and in front of Sanofi to get them convicted."