The editorial staff of Europe 1 2:00 p.m., January 09, 2023

The appeal trial of the health scandal of the Mediator, a drug from Servier laboratories accused of having caused the death of hundreds of patients, opens Monday for six months before the Paris Court of Appeal.

Wrongly prescribed as an appetite suppressant until 2009, the Mediator caused serious side effects on thousands of patients, leading to the death of some of them.