Psychiatrist and former Bas-Rhin MP Martin Vonner was suspended for a year on Friday by the disciplinary chamber of the Council of Physicians of Grand Est in Nancy after two complaints about his controversial remarks on masks and vaccines. During the Covid-19 epidemic.
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“This decision is absolutely outrageous. I am extremely and deeply concerned about freedom of opinion and speech in our countryHe responded to AFP, indicating his intention to appeal.
“I knew it was going to be a political decision. Did the orderly justice have the legality to summon me? There is the whole question. In any case, it gives me all the energy I need to continue the political struggle.“, he added.
The former MP, who was elected under the LREM banner in 2017 before being kicked out of the caucus in 2020, was summoned to court in early November following two complaints filed by the association in 2021.NoFakeMed“- which aims at”promoting evidence-based medicine– and by the National Council of the Order of Doctors (Cnom).
“It’s a good decision– Dr. Jean-Christophe Breton, a member of the No FakeMed collective, responded to AFP. “This is the second sanction chosen by the Disciplinary Chamber, which confirms that the statement outside Parliament is ethically responsible. But there is an appeal, so we have to wait for the new decision“.
It is up to the National Disciplinary Chamber to decide on an appeal. It is presided over by a professional magistrate, state counsel and composed of assessors, doctors selected within the order.
At the hearing, the plaintiffs argued that Ms. Warner raised “incorrect information” and broadcast “care protocols“Against Covid”without scientific basis“, namely ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine, on his Twitter page, where he presents himself as a psychiatrist.
They argued that parliamentary immunity did not extend to comments made by a former MP outside the House because it “used his status as a doctor to express his opinion“Especially when he went to rallies condemning wearing a mask, or when he claimed that PCR tests gave false results.
The defense, on the other hand, argued that Martin Vohner had acted well as a Member of Parliament and not as a doctor because, although still registered with the departmental board of doctors of the Bas-Rhin Ord, he no longer performed his medical care. activities since his election in 2017. On November 4, the Disciplinary Chamber of Doctors of Franche-Comte, Burgundy, banned radiologist Alain Huppert, Cote d’Or Senator L.R. from practicing medicine for 9 months. , for “ethical mistakes“.
Source: Le Figaro
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