Ten members of a pro-euthanasia association, Ultime Liberté, were indicted in Paris in an investigation into trafficking in Pentobarbital, a barbiturate banned in France and sometimes used for assisted suicide, we learned. Monday March 8 from judicial source.
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These ten people were indicted on Wednesday 3, Thursday 4 and Friday 5 March for "
propaganda in favor of products allowing death
", "
complicity in importing, possession and acquisition of plants classified as psychotropic
" and "
complicity of 'smuggling of goods dangerous to public health
,' according to the judicial source.
Three of them were also indicted for "
acquisition, possession and importation of plants classified as psychotropic
" and "
smuggling of goods dangerous to health
".
The association Ultime Liberté first asserted, on Saturday March 6, in a press release, that eleven members had been indicted.
These activists had been placed in police custody in mid-January by decision of an investigating judge from the public health department of the court, responsible since June 18, 2020 with these investigations.
These members of the association must answer for a number of acts committed between August 2018 and November 2020, according to the association's press release.
"
These acts are considered illegal under certain articles of current French law
", according to the press release.
"
For a large part of these acts, we do not deny having been the perpetrators, or that they may be in violation of some of these current articles of law
."
The investigating judge's investigations followed on from those started on July 26, 2019 by the Paris prosecutor's office, after the transmission by the American authorities of a list of French recipients of packages that may contain Pentobarbital, a powerful anesthetic banned in France. since 1996 for human medicine.
One hundred and twenty-five French buyers had been identified.
During a hundred searches in October 2019, 130 vials of this product, diverted by people wishing to end their lives, had been seized.
Manufactured by a Danish laboratory which holds the exclusive license for production in the United States, Pentobarbital is used by veterinarians to euthanize animals.