Marseille’s prosecutor’s office launched a judicial investigation into IHU in July after reports from the Medicines Agency that it was run by controversial researcher Didier Raul, specifically for forgery, prosecutors told AFP on Tuesday (September 6).
This judicial information follows reports from the ANSM in October 2021 and May 2022. (National Drug Safety Agency, Editor’s Note)and not to a request sent by the Health and Research Ministers to the Marseille prosecutor’s office on Monday to seize “offenses or serious breaches of health or research regulationsobserved in the IHU, which followed a new report on the IHU.
The ministers’ request, based on a damning report by the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs (Igas) and its partner for higher education and research (IGESR), had not yet reached the prosecutor in Marseille on Tuesday morning. The prosecutor’s office added to AFP.
On July 4, the Marseille prosecutor’s office launched a judicial investigation.false in writing“, “the use of false writing“and”interventional research involving a person that is not justified by their usual care, without the opinion of the Committee for the Protection of Persons and authorization from the ANSM.“, – said the Marseille tiler to AFP on Tuesday. ANM, in particular, noted.serious violations of the regulation of research related to the human person”, in irregular clinical trials.
On Monday, Ministers Sylvie Retalo and Francois Brown assessed in a joint press release that another report published by Igas and IGESR.highlights serious malfunctionsAt the Mediterranean University Hospital Institute of Infectious Diseases (IHU-MI), established in 2011 and directed by Professor Didier Raoult until the end of August. “Many elementsin this new report are “may be an offense or a serious breach of health or research regulations– the ministers write.
The final report by the Inspectorate General for Social Affairs (Igas) and its partner for Higher Education and Research (IGESR) covers a wider area than the previous report, which was already furious, published a few months ago by the Agency for Medicines (ANSM). Excerpts from its initial version were revealed in early July by La Provence and Mediapart:. Among other practicesof such nature as to fall under the criminal classification“Igas-IGESR inspectors note that patients being treated for Covid-19 or tuberculosis at the IHU were administered.”molecules beyond their marketing authorization“.
François Cremier, director of AP-HM (Marseille Public Hospitals), assured La Provence newspaper on Tuesday that the institution “agrees with the observation of managerial excesses of individual heads of hospital-universities holding key positions in the department of infectious diseases;“. “I am sorry that the IGAS/IGAENR mission does not take into account the detailed legal and scientific answer that I have provided to them.Didier Raul lamented in a tweet on Tuesday, inviting netizens to read it in full online.
In his reply to Igas and Iguess, Didier Raoult believes that this report “mainly focused on making disparaging comments against the director of the IRA-MI“. The former director of IRA is sorry.the lack of distance from the mission, which is thus more like a command mission than a check in the service of the French state.They asked C news On Tuesday, the researcher expressed regret.This is another episode of the fact that I’m being persecuted for saying what everyone else is doing now, including vaccines (…)“, ensuring that he”very calm“:”I did what I thought I should do at a time when the French state thought it necessary to have specialized institutes in the field of infectious diseases;“.
Source: Le Figaro
