• This Monday, Pfizer and BioNTech are summoned for the first time in a hearing in the civil court of Marseille for possible side effects of its anti-Covid vaccine.

  • The applicant hopes to obtain the appointment of a medical expert who will assess the causal link between vaccination and the onset of her pathology.

  • Lawyer Eric Lanzarone defends her and has 300 similar files.

The hearing scheduled for Monday in Marseille announces a legal marathon for lawyer Eric Lanzarone and his client, a 55-year-old woman who prefers to remain anonymous.

The Marseille lawyer will plead in civil court to try to have the rheumatoid arthritis developed by his client recognized, "a few days after her second dose of the Pfizer vaccine", explains Eric Lanzarone.

“Today, she can no longer walk more than 300 to 400 meters and has since been on sick leave.

It's a totally debilitating side effect,” he says.



In the adversarial hearing on Monday before the civil court, the challenge for the lawyer is to obtain from justice the appointment of a medical expert to establish the effective link between his vaccinations and the development of this disease. inflammatory joint.

“His life has become hell.

We are trying to have the causal link with his vaccination recognized, ”continues the lawyer.

Facing him, Capucine Van Robays will represent the eight lawyers of Pfizer France, a branch of the American pharmaceutical company which manufactures and markets the most injected Covid-19 vaccine in France.

He also assigned the German company BioNTech, the laboratory which developed the vaccine.

A first in France when the lawyer had already obtained last October in Paris the appointment of a medical expert in an identical case.

"In Marseille, I also assigned BioNTech because during the hearing in Paris, Pfizer had discharged itself on this laboratory", he explains.

300 similar cases to plead

If this audience is a first in Marseille, and the second in France, it will be far from being the last.

Eric Lanzarone says he has 300 similar files.

“I often find identical pathologies: visual impairment, endometriosis, a lot of myocarditis”.

The lawyer, who assures us "not to be antivax", found himself as much in demand on these subjects after attacking the clause of the contract concluded between Pfizer and the European Commission, which placed the order, and which provides that in the event adverse effects, compensation is borne by the States.

“It amounts to privatizing the profits and socializing the risks.

I consider that it is not up to French taxpayers to pay for the undesirable effects, ”he accuses.

For this, it will already be necessary for the expert who may be appointed to clearly conclude the link between vaccination and the development of diseases.

Then, a new penal component will open on the amount of compensation.

Nearly 140 million injections in France, all doses combined, according to data from Public Health France and compiled by CovidTracker.

Solicited, Capucine Van Robays, lawyer for Pfizer, could not be contacted within the time allowed for the writing of this article.

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