Lucie de Perthuis
The National Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM) announced on Saturday that it was preparing to take legal action against Didier Raoult. The former director of the Marseille IHU is accused of having conducted a study on the treatment of Covid-19, without benefiting from the approval of the competent authorities.
Didier Raoult again in the sights of the authorities. The Marseille microbiologist, former director of the IHU-Méditerranée is accused of having carried out, last April, a study on the treatment of Covid-19, described as “the largest wild therapeutic test known” by several doctors in a published forum. in the columns of World. The National Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM) will therefore take legal action regarding this study, according to information from the Parisianwhich Europe 1 is able to confirm.
The experiment piloted by Didier Raoult had already been pinned last Wednesday by the Minister of Health, François Braun. “I deplore this new inadmissible episode of this affair which, for me, is akin to provocation. We will have to take all the necessary measures towards all the signatories of this article”, he had declared before the Senate. .
An unreviewed study
These therapeutic trials involved more than 30,000 patients with Covid-19 who were subjected to various treatments. Including the “Raoult protocol” combining hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. However, this study is defined as being “pre-print”, in other words not reviewed by peers. And this is precisely where the problem arises. Because according to the ANSM, it should have received a favorable opinion from a committee for the protection of persons as well as authorization from the ANSM itself to be implemented.
Faced with criticism, the authors of this study finally removed it from the platform on which it had been published. And on Twitter, Didier Raoult defended himself, saying that the patients thus treated did not act as “guinea pigs” but on the contrary were “lucky”. “The truth circulates and will circulate, count on me!”, Concluded the 71-year-old professor who will however have to face justice again concerning his methods decried by part of the scientific community.
We are the good guys!
All the authors (including me) of the preprint which is so scary by showing that we could treat, have decided, in solidarity with Professor Lagier threatened by the management, to withdraw the preprint so as not to suggest a betrayal of his leaves and for…— Didier Raoult (@raoult_didier) June 2, 2023