The Superior Prosecutor's Office of Catalonia has opened investigative proceedings against the farmer from Balaguer (Lleida) Josep Pàmies and against the Dolça Revolució cooperative for promoting sodium chlorite as a coronavirus treatment, following the complaint by the Council of Medical Colleges of Catalonia (CCMC ), the Public Ministry has informed Europa Press.
The Superior Prosecutor's Office has specified that investigative proceedings have been opened, but the Lleida Prosecutor's Office has been inhibited as it is competent to investigate these events.
The Council of Medical Colleges of Catalonia has filed a complaint for an alleged crime against public health and another for misleading advertising for spreading on networks the alleged suitability of MMS (Miracle Mineral Solution), sodium chlorite, in the treatment of coronavirus, the group of doctors points out in a statement.
These crimes would have been committed with the aggravating circumstance of the serious health emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic, assures the Council.
"Josep Pàmies, without validated health certification or any medical knowledge, trivializes, through his website and social networks , about the Covid-19 and about the supposed suitability of the MMS (Miracle Mineral Solution) product, actually sodium chlorite , to treat this disease, which is crudely lashing out at the world population, "argues the group of doctors.
The CCMC assures that it has had knowledge, through various means and a recent report from the Catalan Audiovisual Council (CAC), of events that it considers may be constitutive of crimes by Pàmies and the Dolça Revolució Cooperative.
The CCMC maintains that, despite the fact that the video in which Josep Pàmies broadcasts this misleading message has been removed from the YouTube platform , the author has continued to promote through the website of the Dolça Revolució cooperative.
He adds that from this space you can continue accessing said video, "in which Pàmies dares to affirm that there is a solution against the coronavirus", while acknowledging that the sale of MMS is prohibited for medical use , but not as a disinfectant , making a call for the population to contact Dolça Revolució to obtain the product.
The school notes that in addition to promoting the MMS, Pàmies also organizes workshops for the home-made production of this product and, specifically, has convened one of these sessions for April 25, as reported on the Dolça Revolució website.
The group of doctors considers that, apart from the direct damage that this product may cause to people's health, "it is necessary to take into account the risk that it supposes as it can delay the demand for medical help by sick people" .
"In the current circumstances of exceptionality, the conduct of those who promote products without any type of knowledge or training is especially serious, when they are perfectly aware of their ineffectiveness," says the CCMC.
For his part, Josep Pàmies, in statements to Europa Press, has assured this Friday that he is "calm" and that a complaint from the Ministry of Health has already been filed, referring to the complaint filed in 2019 for the sale through the Internet of sodium chlorite as a remedy for various pathologies, including autism.
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