The family of a 63-year-old man, who died in March in Haute-Savoie of "multiple thromboses" after receiving a first injection of AstraZeneca's anti-Covid vaccine, filed a complaint against X for "manslaughter", a- we learned Tuesday from the Annecy prosecutor's office.
The family of a 63-year-old man, who died in March in Haute-Savoie of "multiple thromboses" after receiving a first injection of AstraZeneca's anti-Covid vaccine, filed a complaint against X for "manslaughter", a- we learned Tuesday from the Annecy prosecutor's office.
"The complaint was lodged with me urgently this Tuesday morning", confirmed to AFP Véronique Denizot, the public prosecutor of Annecy.
This is not the first procedure targeting the vaccine from the Anglo-Swedish laboratory: a complaint against X was filed in Toulouse after the death of a 38-year-old woman and the Nantes prosecutor's office opened a preliminary investigation in following the death of a medical student.
These complaints could be examined jointly by the Paris prosecutor's office as part of a grouping.
Otherwise, Véronique Denizot left the door open to the "referral of an examining magistrate".
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"Thrombosis on the liver, kidneys, brain ..."
According to the regional daily Le Dauphiné Libéré, which revealed the information, the complaint was recorded by the gendarmes of Seynod, Friday April 2, a little more than two weeks after the death, on March 18 in Annecy, of this sixty-year-old who had just received the first injection of the controversial anti-Covid vaccine.
His relatives reported the tragedy to the National Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM), which ordered additional information to clarify the causes of his death.
Persuaded "at 95%" that a link with the vaccination can be established, the relatives of the victim try to have his death recognized as a consequence of the injection and to include it in the report on the adverse effects of AstraZeneca.
"In the space of a day and a half, he multiplied problems after problems, thromboses on vital organs, the liver, the kidneys, the brain ... then he was placed in intensive care. It was dazzling" , testifies his brother in a video published by the daily on its website.
On Tuesday, Rogerio Pinto de Sa Gaspar, the director of the World Health Organization (WHO), estimated that the risk / benefit balance continued to weigh "largely" in favor of the use of AstraZeneca's anti-Covid vaccine .
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it was still assessing the safety of the vaccine in light of this new information.