The trial of the Mediator scandal resumes Tuesday morning at 10 am at the Paris Criminal Court for the last week of the proceedings and another month of hearing. The hearings were suspended after six months of debate due to the health crisis triggered by the Covid-19. In this extraordinary trial, with some 2,600 victims made civil parties and twelve defendants, the managers of the Servier laboratories, the pharmaceutical group is notably prosecuted for "aggravated deception", "swindle" and "homicides and involuntary injuries".
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Victims invited to stay at home
The room has been refurbished with one seat out of two unusable, but these measures are deemed insufficient for the association for assistance to victims of medication accidents (AAAVAM), civil party, which requests a new postponement but not for Charles-Joseph Oudin , lawyer for 250 civil parties, who estimates that ten years after the revelations of the scandal, the victims can no longer wait. "We will get there, with a mask, a surgical suit, by videoconference, we plead and we finish," he enjoins.
"Personally, I asked my clients not to come because if everyone comes, we take health risks and risks on the trial. The price to pay for the trial to end is is also that the victims stay at home ", continues this lawyer. "Those who support this procedure have only one thing left, that the Servier laboratories are escaping justice."
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"I need this trial to end"
Lisa Boussinot, daughter of a victim of the Mediator, has followed the six months of debate since September and she will attend the resumption of the hearing that she wants to see succeed. "It is a very important affair in my life, since I lost my mother there. This fight, we have been fighting for ten years. For us, it was the criminal route that counted and that's it, we are there ! ", she explains. "I need this trial to end, for the protagonists of this case to be condemned to turn a page. And pushing it further, as the Servier laboratories have endeavored to do, that is no longer possible. There are people whose health has worsened and who continues to die because of this drug, "she wants to recall.
The hearing is scheduled to start on June 9, and the end of the trial scheduled for July 6.