A naturopath, Miguel B., is tried this Friday, September 10 before the Paris Criminal Court for "
illegal practice of medicine and usurpation of the quality of doctor
" after the death of a man suffering from cancer.
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The victim, aged 41 at the time of his death, had placed all his confidence in this naturopath, convinced that the purges and fasts he advised him would cure him of his testicular cancer, indicates
Le Parisien
.
The naturopath, who presents himself on a website as a "
biochemist
" and "
doctor of molecular medicine, specializing in research on cancerous stem cells of the brain
", offers courses and advice focusing in particular on raw food consumption.
The qualification of manslaughter not retained
The widow of the victim had denounced the facts in February 2019 to the Paris prosecutor's office, which had opened an investigation. The qualification of "
involuntary homicide
" was not retained because the investigations, carried out by the public health pole of the court of Paris, "
did not make it possible to demonstrate a certain causal link between the intervention of the person concerned. and the death of the victim
”, according to a source close to the file.
“
The causal link is in telling him not to go for treatment.
When he discovered his cancer, if he did not meet this person, he was curable,
”explained to AFP Manuel Abitbol in early August, the lawyer for the widow and the family of the deceased.
"
He arrived at the hospital when he could no longer do anything, he underwent chemotherapy three months before dying,
" added Me Abitbol, recalling that the cure rate for testicular cancer is 97%.
The naturopath tried this Friday may not be done with justice.
After the death of a first patient, the parents of a deceased forty-something are indeed suing the false doctor in turn, reports
Le Parisien
.
In 2020, 38% of reports to the Interministerial Mission for Vigilance and the Fight against Sectarian Abuses (Miviludes) were related to the field of health and well-being. New trends include extreme fasting or raw food eating, a practice of consuming only raw foods.