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‘Poisoning attempt’ charges filed against French
H1N1 campaign
Michael Cosgrove
Flesh
& Stone
Monday, Oct 26th, 2009
In what is being seen as the first of many such
actions to come, nine individuals have filed formal charges
claiming that the H1N1 campaign is a deliberate attempt to poison
the French population.
These charges, which were filed yesterday, could not come at
a more inopportune moment for the government and health specialists.
The vaccination campaign got underway last Tuesday in a climate
of national skepticism as to the vaccine’s safety and
efficiency, and this news will surely boost the morale of the
increasing number of anti-vaccine lobbyists who are beginning
to organize their resistance to any attempt to vaccinate the
population against H1N1.
Nine inhabitants of the Isére region of France are cited
as joint plaintiffs in the case, including a health sector worker,
a teacher and a radio talk show host. They met each other at
various public meetings held to denounce the vaccine’s
alleged health risks.
The charges take the form of a ‘plainte contre X’
which means that the perpetrator of an alleged crime or felony
is not known, or is not named, in the charge sheet. This is
a commonly used manner of filing complaints in France, particularly
where the charges relate to supposed government implication
in alleged breaches of the law. In cases where those trials
proceed after prior examination of the facts, the specific persons
or organizations concerned are designated and charged as the
trial proceeds.
Jean-Pierre Joseph, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, describes
the vaccination campaign as “A veritable attempt to poison.”
He confirmed that the charges were filed at the High Court in
Grenoble before the court’s senior examining magistrate.
He said other court cases involving other plaintiffs would begin
soon
The various charges filed included one of “Attempting
to administer substances…of a nature which could result
in death.”
“The aim is to put a stop to what we consider to be an
act of poisoning,” according to Joseph. “The interest
of this action is that people in France now have a means by
which to express their concern as citizens by saying publicly
“We are aware that the vaccination campaign is a swindle.”
Similar court actions are planned in other areas of the Isére,
as well as in Paris, Pau and Nantes, and several hundred vaccine
opponents are beginning to organize themselves on the internet
with a view to filing class action charges.
The government and health authorities are currently battling
to persuade people to get vaccinated against increasingly difficult
odds. Opposition to the campaign has been increasing steadily,
and various polls taken over the last few days put the figure
for those who do not intend to get vaccinated as high as 70
percent.
Their task is being made even more arduous by the fact that
while authorities believe on the one hand that vaccination is
essential despite negative public reaction, the French have
traditionally proved to be very quick to condemn and file charges
in cases where not enough was said to be done to prevent other
medical mishaps such as the Mad Cow outbreak and an AIDS contamination
case, in which several people died and many more became HIV
positive after receiving AIDS-contaminated blood transfusions
in hospitals.
That signifies that the authorities have very little room to
maneuver and are more or less obliged to continue the campaign
in order to avoid similar charges should they decide or be forced
to abandon the campaign and high numbers of people die as a
result of not being vaccinated.
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