An Israeli vaccination center against Covid-19, March 8, 2021 (illustration).

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Majdi Mohammed / AP / SIPA

  • For many Internet users, this is an indisputable victory: the International Criminal Court (ICC) would have "accepted" a complaint against Israel in terms of anti-Covid-19 vaccination.

  • According to the authors of this procedure, the country's massive vaccination campaign violates several essential ethical principles listed in the Nuremberg Code.

  • But the document from the ICC relayed as evidence simply indicates that the court acknowledges receipt of this message ... without any guarantee of opening an investigation in this regard.

Israel, the most advanced country in terms of vaccination against Covid-19, does it owe this advance to a clear violation of international scientific principles advocated since the end of World War II?

This is what some internet users have been claiming for a few days on social networks.


“SCOOP!

The court in The Hague accepted the complaint lodged by two Israeli lawyers, for violation of the NUREMBERG CODE by the Israeli government ”, exclaimed for example the geneticist Alexandra Henrion-Claude, with reference to the medical principles retained by the court of Nuremberg in its 1947 verdict against Nazi doctors for their experiments on detainees.

SCOOP!


The Hague court accepted the complaint filed by two Israeli lawyers for violation of the NUREMBERG CODE by the Israeli government.


"Pfizer's experiment in the State of Israel was carried out in violation of the Nuremberg Code" https://t.co/AZbyd0QhK5

- Alexandra Henrion-Caude (@CaudeHenrion) March 13, 2021

According to an article of I24 News particularly viral, the International Criminal Court (ICC), competent to judge genocides, crimes against humanity and war crimes, "would have accepted a complaint from the organization" People of Truth " , which was brought against the Israeli government accused of violating the Nuremberg Code as part of its coronavirus vaccination campaign ”.

"" The first principle of the Nuremberg Code is the person's willingness and informed consent to receive treatment and participate in an experiment, "wrote lawyers Ruth Makhacholovsky and Aryeh Suchowolski of A. Suchovolsky & Co. L The organization [People of Truth] demands, among other things, that the vaccination campaign, which violates the principle of informed consent of the patient, be stopped, and that the initiative aiming at the creation of the "green passport", which it says is harmful to democratic values ​​”, we can still read in this text.

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The lawyers quoted by I24 News have indeed sent a letter to the ICC: it is fully available online.

And they did receive a response from the international body… but this only serves as an acknowledgment of receipt, as the shared document Ruth Makhacholovsky clearly indicates.

“The prosecutor's office of the International Criminal Court acknowledges receipt of your [message].

[…] Please note that this letter does not mean that an investigation has been opened, nor that an investigation will be opened by the prosecutor's office ”, can we read in black and white.

As recently explained to

20 Minutes

 Fari El Abdallah, spokesperson for the ICC, the latter "does not have a complaints system".

This does not prevent “anyone with potentially relevant information can submit it to the prosecutor's office, which acknowledges receipt and then examines it to decide what action to take on this information”.

While he said the ICC receives hundreds of such messages each year, they are most often ruled inadmissible.

Like the communication sent by Francis Lalanne to accuse Emmanuel Macron and Christophe Castaner of "crimes against humanity" because of the police practices of maintaining order against "yellow vests".

The communication sent about the Israeli vaccination campaign against Covid-19 therefore seems doomed to the same fate, the Pfizer and Modern vaccines deployed in the country not being injected on an experimental basis but after validation by the health authorities. .

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