A relative of Didier Raoult relieved of his duties as head of department at the IHU in Marseille. Philippe Parola, head of the acute infectious diseases department, was dismissed from his position.
He is notably the subject of a procedure carried out by the government before the disciplinary jurisdiction of university hospital staff (JDHU) They are accused of having co-signed with Professor Raoult a study describing undeclared clinical trials on patients with Covid. Widely discredited by his peers, Raoult was retired from his job at the end of August 2021.