Can it be written off?

Professor Didier Raoult was summoned by the disciplinary chamber of the regional council of the Ordre des médecins de Nouvelle-Aquitaine in Bordeaux, where the examination of complaints lodged against the Marseille infectious disease specialist will be relocated next Friday, announced this Saturday to the 'AFP this jurisdiction.

The hearing will take place on the morning of November 5 at the Bordeaux Administrative Court of Appeal, the disciplinary chamber said, confirming information from the

Sud-Ouest

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This chamber, chaired by an administrative magistrate, can decide on sanctions ranging from a simple warning to delisting.

Without Didier Raoult

Professor Didier Raoult will not attend this hearing, however, indicated his lawyer Brice Grazzini, who specifies that he "sent a brief to set out the position" of Didier Raoult before this court. In the fall of 2020, the departmental council of the Ordre des médecins des Bouches-du-Rhône had taken legal action against Didier Raoult, who heads the Institut hospitalo-universitaire Méditerranée Infection (IHU) in Marseille, accusing him in particular of several sprains. to the code of ethics related to the promotion of hydroxychloroquine to fight against Covid-19.

The National Council of the Order of Physicians (Cnom) joined in this complaint at the end of December.

Professor Raoult immediately reacted to this announcement by filing a complaint in turn against the president of the Cnom, Patrick Bouet, for "harassment".

A few weeks earlier, the director of the IHU had also filed a complaint against the vice-president of the Ordre des médecins des Bouches-du-Rhône, Doctor Guillaume Gorincour, for “non-confraternity”.

Our file on Didier Raoult

The IHU and Didier Raoult met with strong media coverage at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, in 2020, by advocating hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the disease, despite the lack of proven effect.

Since last week, this institute and its director have also been accused of having carried out supposed illegal “clinical trials” against tuberculosis since 2017, which they deny.

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