Seven months after the death of his son following the ingestion of a Buitoni pizza, a father denounces the slowness of the legal proceedings.
“Nobody reacts.” It is a scandal that has marked the country this year, the contamination linked to the consumption of Buitoni frozen pizzas. At the end of July, Public Health France identified 56 cases of E. coli poisoning since the beginning of the year, all related to Buitoni frozen pizzas. Among these cases, 55 are children, two died and others have serious consequences, recalls RTL.
This is Yohan, the father of Natan, 8 years old, died after eating pizza en famille, who spoke on September 24 and was indignant at the “silence unworthy of justice and the State”. A few months after the events, a new investigating judge was appointed to the case, without the families being notified, the father of the family reported to France info. “We feel left out. We want them to take us into consideration, to receive us, to listen to us, to finally move this case forward, to hold all these industrial thugs accountable”he assured.
Nestlé’s Insufficient Apologies
On July 11, Christophe Cornu, CEO of Nestlé, apologized to affected families. “It is a human drama, where families and children are affected, he expressed in Le Figaro. Today I want to express my deepest sympathy and apologize.” In this “mea culpa”the businessman had assured that the company had to “answers to these families” and that she had the obligation to ensure “transparency and truth”. “Nestlé will take all its responsibilities”, he promised. Faced with the absence of an indictment, Yohan did not hide his anger. “We have to have them in front of us, they have to see our faces, they have to see the state in which many families are. We let them poison and kill people. Nobody reacts. It is not considered a priority situation by the State”says the father of the family.