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The lawyer of Vincent Lambert's nephew described Thursday as "intellectual fraud" the decision of the Paris Court of Appeal resulted in the resumption of treatment of this patient in a vegetative state, denouncing a "misuse of procedure".

On Monday evening, the court of appeal asked the state to respect the provisional measures formulated by the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), ordering the resumption of treatment of the former nurse of 42 years hospitalized in Reims, effective Tuesday.

At the hearing, the lawyers of Vincent Lambert's parents - opposed to the discontinuation of treatment - Me Jérôme Triomphe and Jean Paillot, showed the three magistrates of the court a video, presented as dating from Sunday, where the mother is at the bedside of his son. "Do not cry", can we hear on the recording, broadcast the same day on the site of Values ​​actuelle.

"The debate in this case was just to know if the opinion of the UN committee prevailed or not on the French law", affirmed Thursday to the AFP Me Gérard Chemla, lawyer of François Lambert, in favor of the judgment treatments.

"But by watching the video, they (magistrates) no longer posed" this question but "have positioned themselves as judges of the opportunity of stopping care (...) on a totally emotional register, outside obviously of their functions, "he lamented, denouncing" a major fault ". "This decision is an intellectual scam, they should have refrained from watching the video."

Moreover, this viewing "does not appear in the judgment" of the court. "We are in a clear abuse of procedure," he said. "It shows how much we are in the judicial aberration."

Me Chemla said he had "done the necessary for a remedy to take place and be regularized next week". "We are necessarily in a long time: at best it will clear up in the next two to three months, at worst it can last longer," he said.

Contacted, Vincent Lambert's parents' lawyers could not be reached immediately.

Family drama become a legal battle, the case of Vincent Lambert tears his family since 2013, and has become the symbol of the debate on the end of life in France.

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