According to revelations from the Chained Duck, one of Professor Didier Raoult's colleagues made a report to the courts, accusing him of having administered his patients with hydroxychloroquine without their formal consent. The National Medicines Agency, which carried out its own investigation, seized the Order of Physicians.

After the controversy, the pros and cons ... Is Professor Raoult about to experience legal hassles? This time, it is not the efficacy of its treatment against Covid-19, hydroxychloroquine, that is pointed out, but the conditions under which its tests were carried out. According to information from the duck chained , the Marseille Prosecutor's Office received a report questioning the legal framework of its research.

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Indeed, these accusations contend that Professor Raoult would have prescribed chloroquine for one of his therapeutic trials without having sought the agreement of his patients. It is a colleague of the infectiologist who made a report to the Marseille Prosecutor's Office at the beginning of April. If Le Canard enchaîné is to be believed  , this doctor points to the conditions in which Didier Raoult's first clinical trials against the Covid-19 were carried out.

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While the law requires that these tests be carried out with "the free and informed consent of the interested party", the professor's teams presented their study published on March 27 as a simple "observational research". However, the use of the term "observational" indicates, from a legal point of view, that there was not necessarily a formal agreement on the part of the patients. Solicited by the Marseille prosecutor, the National Medicines Agency explains that it conducted its own investigation with the infectious disease specialist. The conclusion is clear: "the procedures for informing patients and tracking the motivation for the prescription do not comply with legal requirements".

If Didier Raoult rejects all of these accusations, the Medicines Agency has decided to refer the matter to the Order of Physicians.