It is a real deluge which could lead to legal actions.
While we learned, this Thursday, the summons of Agnès Buzyn, former Minister of Health, before the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) - competent to judge the offenses of ministers in the context of their functions -, other people responsible for managing the health crisis in France are targeted by (very) many complaints.
According to our information, since the start of the epidemic, around 18,390 complaints have been received by the Paris prosecutor's office.
They are processed by the public health center.
Among them, more than 18,200 are typical complaints, that is to say that they all look alike and were downloaded on the same model, from an Internet site.
In addition, there are more than 150 individual complaints which target, for example, a doctor or a specific structure.
The same phenomenon was observed at the CJR which explained, Monday, that 14,500 complaints had arrived on its desk since the start of the health crisis.
“The majority of these are typical complaints.
A lawyer has posted forms online, people just have to sign and send, ”we were told at the Court of Cassation.
Complaints against the mask for children, the effect of vaccines, advertising ...
In detail, more than 300 of the complaints received come from a model posted on a site during the first phase of the pandemic. These were mainly taken into account in the opening, in the fall, of four judicial information against X for charges of "voluntary abstention from fighting a disaster, endangering the lives of others and 'manslaughter and unintentional injury'.
"These procedures bring together 253 of the 328 complaints involving decision-makers and national public structures to which the Paris prosecutor's office has been addressed since March 24, 2020", it was specified.
Following these openings of investigation, searches were carried out in the offices and homes of the current Minister of Health Olivier Véran, of the former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, as well as of former members of the government Agnès Buzyn and Sibeth Ndiaye.
The Director General of Health Jérôme Salomon and the Director General of Public Health France, Geneviève Chêne, were also targeted.
The former Minister of Health, summoned to be heard this Friday, therefore, could be indicted for "abstaining from fighting a disaster", because of his management of the start of the pandemic.
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Secondly, the Paris prosecutor's office records around 6,600 complaints denouncing the side effects associated with wearing a mask for children.
They are filed with the aim of “violence against minors, deception and non-assistance to a person in danger”.
Then, a majority, nearly 9,600 complaints, tackle the side effects of vaccines.
They are complaints of “aggravated deception endangering the life of others, abuse of weakness and aggravated extortion”.
Finally, the remaining 1,400 complaints blame the public authorities' advertising campaign in favor of vaccination.
They consider that it is "contrary to the regulation of advertising on drugs and vaccines provided for in the health code".
They are filed for “false and illegal advertising and advertising in favor of a vaccine”.
Agnès Buzyn's hearing this Friday could therefore not be the last, if the complaints are successful, for a member of the government or decision-maker of the management of the coronavirus epidemic in France.
