"It's a very big victory for the families of the victims, we have been waiting for this for a long time." For Marine Martin, president of the association to help parents of victims of misuse of anti-convulsant treatments, the new worsening of the charges weighing on Sanofi is a victory. The group announced this morning to be indicted for manslaughter in the Dépakine case. He had already been indicted since February for "aggravated deception" and "unintentional injuries" in the same case. Justice will have to determine if the anti-epileptic drug is the cause of the death of four children between 1990 and 2014.
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"They despise us"
"I have been getting calls for years from parents who have lost a baby due to the deformities caused by [taking] Depakine during pregnancy," she explains. "I don't think the general public knows Depakine kills." According to her, "hundreds and hundreds of children have died because pregnant women with epilepsy were not informed that with Depakine they risked killing their baby in utero or that it would not survive the deformities ". So, judge Marine Martin, that Sanofi is indicted for manslaughter, "it is symbolically important for all these women, for all these missing children."
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She also criticizes the attitude of Sanofi, "faithful to what it has always been: abject, filthy. They despise us. We are really angry and we will not let go, because they have a completely amoral attitude towards them. -to the victims ". The whistleblower explains as well during the proceedings, "they refuse to pay what they have to pay when they are condemned".