PARIS (Reuters) - Police raided the homes and offices of France’s health minister, its public health director and former prime minister on Thursday as a judicial investigation into the government’s response to the coronavirus crisis deepened.
...The probe was launched in July by France’s Court of Justice, established in 1993 to handle cases of alleged ministerial misconduct in the wake of the country’s contaminated blood scandal of the 1980s and 1990s. The court received some 90 complaints lodged by doctors, nursing homes and local authorities over the government’s handling of the pandemic. The complaints included accusations of involuntary homicide and endangering life.
All but nine were dismissed by the prosecutor. The remainder were wrapped into a single probe which aims to establish whether those in charge at the outset of the outbreak showed a “lack of will to fight a disaster”.
...Francois Mitterrand established the Court of Justice in the wake of scandal which saw haemophiliacs receive blood transfusions infected with HIV.
Former prime minister Laurent Fabius and two of his ministers faced manslaughter charges after the government allegedly delayed its response, waiting for a French test to be authorised, even through a foreign company had one available.
Fabius and his social affairs minister were acquitted.
His health minister was found guilty but received no sentence.
In total the court has handled some ten cases.
In total the court has handled some ten cases.
It has never handed out a prison sentence...Read all.
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