The film Hold-Up, qualified as a documentary, stands out from other conspiratorial videos broadcast so far on the Web.
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According to a large number of publications on social networks, Professor Jean-Bernard Fourtillan was "interned" against his will in a psychiatric hospital in Gard.
This hospitalization was decided "on medical prescription", specifies the prefecture of Gard at
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Jean-Bernard Fourtillan had been arrested a few days earlier as part of an investigation, indicates a judicial source at
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, confirming information from
Midi-Libre
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Professor Jean-Bernard Fourtillan, was he "interned" against his will in a psychiatric hospital in Gard?
This is what many viral posts on social networks affirm, calling for the aid of the professor unfairly locked up for having according to them, "dared to file a complaint against the Pasteur Institute".
Professor Fourtillan, anti-vaccine figure, would have been hospitalized against his will in the Gard - Tom Hollmann
Jean-Bernard Fourtillan, anti-vaccine figure on social networks, is one of the noted speakers in Pierre Barnerias' controversial documentary, “Hold-Up”.
In this film, questioned for the many erroneous information it contains, Jean-Bernard Fourtillan affirmed that the Covid-19 had been created from scratch by the Institut Pasteur.
An assertion which led the latter to file a complaint against X for defamation.
At the origin of the controversy around the hospitalization of the doctor, a video posted on YouTube in which a man announces "the internment" against his will of Professor Jean-Bernard Fourtillan.
The man explains having had contact with "relatives" of the professor and calls for pressure to be put on the psychiatric hospital to obtain his release and prevent other "embarrassing scientists" who go "against the dominant discourse" do not suffer the same fate.
Immediately taken over by
France Soir
- a new “covid-skeptic” bastion of the web today far removed from the famous post-war daily newspaper - it took only a very short time for the information to be reproduced in dozens. similar posts flooding social media.
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the prefecture of Gard confirms an "individual measure of hospitalization" targeting Jean-Bernard Fourtillan.
And to specify that this decision is "a medical prescription".
No more precision from the prefecture, which emphasizes that the measure is "covered by the usual rules of confidentiality of personal medical information.
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However, this decision was taken after the doctor was arrested by the police on December 7 "under a warrant to bring [issued by] a Parisian examining magistrate", learns
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from source judicial, confirming information from
Midi-Libre
.
According to the regional daily, the suspect was remanded in custody at the Nîmes remand center after his arrest.
Three days later, a doctor considered that his state of health required placement in a psychiatric establishment and the prefect followed these recommendations, adds
Midi-Libre
, specifying that Jean-Bernard Fourtillan is hospitalized in the establishment of Mas Careiron, in Uzès.
An investigation opened in September 2019
The arrest of the doctor took place within the framework of a judicial investigation opened in particular for "deception" by the Paris prosecutor's office in September 2019, following "wild" clinical trials carried out on 350 patients with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's in an abbey located near Poitiers.
These facts had also earned Jean-Bernard Fourtillan to be prosecuted by the Order of Physicians for "charlatanism".
According to the Nîmes prosecutor at
Midi Libre
, Jean-Bernard Fourtillan did not dispute his hospitalization without his consent.
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