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3rd generation pills: 8 years later, open instruction for Marion Larat, severely disabled

2020-10-26T17:18:09.801Z


The Paris Court of Appeal indicated, in a judgment last July, that “it was wrongly considered that the causal link between the taking of


The Marion Larat case, a young woman severely disabled after a stroke that she attributes to taking a 3rd generation pill produced by Bayer, will be the subject of a criminal investigation after a court decision that has overturned a dismissal pronounced in 2018, announced Monday his lawyer.

A real relief for the one who published a book on her story with the more than evocative title, "the pill is bitter".

At the same time, in civil matters, Marion Larat, whose justice had recognized the quality of victim of "a non-faulty medical accident" was awarded by a judgment in September of the judicial court of Bordeaux compensation of 4.5 million. euros by the National Medical Accident Compensation Office (Oniam).

With this turnaround in a case that has been running for eight years and concerns thousands of women claiming to be victims each year of sequelae of hormonal contraceptives, the investigating chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal indicated, in a judgment in July , that "it was wrongly estimated that the causal link between the intake of (the Méliane pill) and the stroke had not been established with certainty", a source close to the case said. .

A stroke in 2006 and a disability at 65%

Me Jean-Christophe Coubris, lawyer for Marion Larat, welcomed the appointment of an investigating judge, who should hear Marion Larat "by the end of the year".

At the end of 2012, Marion Larat, a 25-year-old ex-Bordeaux student, had become the first Frenchwoman to file a complaint for "involuntary harm to the integrity of the person", after a stroke in 2006 and a 65% disability , which she attributes to a 3rd generation pill, Méliane, produced by the German group Bayer.

At the time, the case had pushed the health authorities to anticipate the delisting of “mini-pills” and paved the way for some 130 other complaints, centralized at the public health center of the Paris prosecutor's office.

But in 2017, the prosecution classified the investigation into 29 brands of 3rd and 4th generation contraceptive pills.

Marion's lawyer then lodged a complaint with a civil party, leading to the appointment of an examining magistrate, but a dismissal order had been issued in October 2018, hence the appeal from Me Coubris.

In the wake of the Marion Larat affair, the climate of mistrust towards 3rd and 4th generation pills led to spectacular drops in their sales.

And the publicized fight of the young woman "for the other victims", had earned her a prize "Woman of the year" (France 2 / RTL / Marie-Claire).

Source: leparis

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