Professor Didier Raoult lodged a complaint with the Ordre des médecins des Bouches-du-Rhône against the vice-president of this body in charge of ethics, for "
non-confraternity
", announced his lawyer Me Brice Grazzini.
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The director of the Institut hospitalo-universitaire Méditerranée Infection (IHU) based in Marseille accuses Dr. Guillaume Gorincour of around fifty tweets denigrating him.
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This is all the more serious given that Dr Gorincour is vice-president of the Order's council in charge of communication and ethics.
The rules of the instance provide that its members, charged with a public service mission, respect a duty of discretion,
”underlined Me Grazzini.
The Order's departmental council was not immediately reachable.
Professor Raoult warns through the voice of his lawyer that he will take legal action "
all those who are guilty of defamation, insult, reckless or slanderous denunciation with regard to him or towards the IHU and its activities
" .
This complaint against a member of the Council of the Order comes a few days after that filed by this ordinal authority with the regional disciplinary chamber against the professor.
The Order accuses him of several ethical breaches.
This procedure had been initiated following the referral to the Council of the Order by the French-language Infectious Pathology Society (SPILF) accusing the doctor of failing in his duty of confraternity and of using non-validated treatments, in this case. hydroxychloroquine.
Professor Raoult has been conducting clinical trials for several months with his team in Marseille on hydroxychloroquine, an inexpensive and commonly used treatment against malaria, and says that it is effective against the coronavirus.
But many scientists and the World Health Organization criticized Professor Raoult's studies, saying they had not been conducted according to standard scientific protocols.
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