An association of Covid-19 patients, carried by a municipal candidate who saw her team decimated by the epidemic, was to be set up on Wednesday in Lyon to demand the creation of a compensation fund.
“I think we are the first in France to form an association of this kind. Its objective: to advise and defend the victims of Covid-19 and to obtain compensation for the damage ”, explained to AFP Me Hervé Banbanaste.
Twenty complaints
The Covid-19 Victims Association for Assistance and Compensation (Avaic19) will be born on Wednesday afternoon after a constitutive general assembly. For the time being, lawyers Hervé Bandanaste and Yves Hartemann are preparing around twenty complaints and are looking for possible additional complainants.
It all started with a municipal candidate in Saint-Fons, a suburb of Lyon. After campaigning and touring the polling stations in the first round, she learned that some 20 people on her list or activists had been sick. And at least two of his activists have died, says Chafia Zehmoul, who herself contracted the virus.
The authorities directly targeted
"What I criticize the authorities for: the absence of masks, the maintenance of the first round ... At the beginning, I felt responsible and it was very hard for me but, today, I tell myself that I am not the only one to have experienced this and some need administrative support ”that this association will offer, she explains.
In a ballot marked by massive abstention, the list led by Chafia Zehmoul came in fourth position after the first round, with 10.74% of the vote.
On Tuesday, the Paris prosecutor's office announced the opening of a vast preliminary investigation into the criticized management of the Covid-19 crisis in France, targeting in particular the heads of “involuntary homicides” or “endangering the life of others ”.
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This investigation is the first judicial response to around 40 complaints, more or less detailed, received by the Paris public prosecutor's office during confinement. They were filed by relatives of victims, professional organizations or, in a “petition process”, via standard complaints published on the plaintecovid.fr website.
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