The French company AAZ, which manufactures antigenic tests in particular, lodged a complaint on Tuesday with the Nanterre prosecutor's office for "deliberate endangerment of others", after the dissemination on social networks of a video showing a pharmacist performing a test with Coca-Cola and test positive for Covid-19.
In the wake of the publication shared more than 40,000 times on Facebook, the pharmacist had said that his video was only a joke between friends.
"We were messing around with friends", explained the pharmacist.
But this video has been picked up on dozens of Facebook pages.
"I saw that there are conspiratorial things that took over my video, things that I fight and now I am their standard bearer, it's horrible, I am completely overwhelmed," added the pharmacist.
Experts and the manufacturer of the test also claimed that this type of test did not prove anything.
"Irresponsible attempt at humor"
According to Me Philippe Valent, lawyer for the company AAZ, the complaint "mainly targets acts of deliberate endangerment of others" and indicates the "dissemination of false information to the public".
This complaint is "currently under study before orientation by the prosecution," said the prosecution of Nanterre.
“Obviously, the procedure implemented by this pharmacist did not comply with that described in the leaflet present in each box, a test procedure used by more than 10,000 pharmacists in France, and many more doctors and doctors. 'nurses diligently ", reacted in a statement from the company, lambasting" serious and irresponsible facts in times of pandemic ".
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On January 26, the Union of Community Pharmacists Unions (USPO) also denounced in a press release "an attempt at humor […] irresponsible and inappropriate".
Similar videos, showing "tests" carried out with compote and Coca-Cola, circulated in several European countries in December.