She is an 85-year-old lady with Alzheimer's disease who, from the EHPAD where she lives near Soissons (Aisne), is unaware of the battle that will be played out in her name ... and could implicate up to senior Chinese officials.
At least this is the intention of her daughter, Sylvie Tarapey, who decided to seek all responsibility for the evil that is eating away at her mother Odette today: breast cancer. A disease detected very late and which condemns it in the short term. "The doctor told me that it was too late to do anything, and that she would not be hospitalized until the end, when the pain was too severe," she said indignantly.
Because Sylvie Tarapey is convinced of it: diagnosed in time, her "little mother", as she affectionately calls her, could have been treated. But the Covid-19 crisis has passed through there… “She was neglected, without access to a doctor. I couldn't see her for weeks because of the lockdown. When I called, the director of the EHPAD told me that everything was fine, that she was "just sleeping" . In fact, she was already exhausted by the disease… ”, Sylvie believes.
Failure to report from the caregiver
At the end of April, when visits were again authorized - accompanied by draconian sanitary measures - neither Sylvie nor her sister realized her state of degradation. It was not until the beginning of July, when she finally managed to examine her very emaciated mother, that Sylvie Tarapey noticed a bad wound in the breast.
A biopsy will reveal a large tumor and metastases. "A nurse confessed to my brother that she had seen the wound and did not report it," she enraged. As for the diagnosis, implacable, Sylvie Tarapey can not bring himself to it: “My mother is going to leave in excruciating pain when she could have lived for several more years. It is not because she is 85 that we should abandon her, I do not want to endorse that, neither for her, nor for the other old people! "
She thus instructed Me Emmanuel Ludot to trace the thread of responsibilities. And for the lawyer, these are not confined to France. "There was negligence on the part of the retirement home and the Regional Health Agency, which guarantees access to all to care," he lists. But Me Ludot aims further: as far as China, where he had summons issued this week.
Two Chinese institutes in the sights
In its sights, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Shanghai Pasteur Institute, two structures set up in partnership with France and supposed to be at the forefront of the appearance of new pandemics. However, these, he charges, “have seriously failed in their obligation to alert and have been slow to deliver to the French State all the elements [...] which would have made it possible to limit, or even avoid outright the spread of the virus, ”he wrote.
"The whole point of this cooperation agreement was to have first-hand information in the event of the emergence of a new disease, but France was completely fooled", tackles the penalist, who does not exclude moreover not a responsibility of the Wuhan laboratory in the spread of the Covid, even if it means reviving conspiracy theories. "This institute is" guardian of the strains ", according to the agreement. He claims not to have had the Covid one, but it would still be necessary to prove it by publicly giving the list of those he holds ... In any case, he was unable to alert while the virus was developing in even within the city? », He wonders.
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And to point out that several patents, in connection with Covid-19, were filed in January… Me Ludot accuses: "China lied to be able to market a vaccine before everyone else!" "The difficulty will be to demonstrate in court a causal link, which the lawyer, relying on similar complaints filed by several American prosecutors, does not however doubt:" This strategy of pure profit has, in the end chain, sacrificed the lives of many people, including Odette Tarapey, ”he said.