Karine Lacombe is head of department at Saint-Antoine hospital in Paris -
Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP
A judicial investigation was opened against the head of the infectious diseases department of the Saint-Antoine hospital in Paris Karine Lacombe for defamation against Didier Raoult, learned
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from the lawyer of the director of the IHU in Marseille.
“An examining magistrate was appointed by the Marseille prosecutor's office at the start of the year,” explains Brice Grazzini.
At the end of October 2020, the director of the IHU had initiated proceedings against this infectious disease specialist opposed to the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat the coronavirus.
On the set of the newspaper of France 2, Karine Lacome had accused Professor Raoult of giving the French "a false hope of recovery" and of being "outside any ethical process".
"What is happening in Marseille is in my opinion absolutely scandalous," said Karine Lacombe.
Contacted, the prosecutor of the Republic of Marseille has not responded to our requests at the time of this writing.
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