A collective complaint for illegal practice of medicine and fraud in particular, was filed by ten former patients against Complexus Care, a holistic health center located near Aix-en-Provence offering 100% remote therapeutic monitoring, a-t -we learned on Friday from a judicial source.
“The Marseille prosecutor’s office confirms that it has received a collective complaint from 10 plaintiffs against the Complexus Care health center located in Pélissanne. This complaint will be studied by the specialized public health unit with a view to determining the follow-up to be given, ”said the prosecution. The complaint was filed for “breach of trust and weakness”, “fraud” and “illegal practice of medicine”, facts punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of 750,000 euros, said Maya Lahloul. , the lawyer filing this complaint.
Complexus Care, founded by Hocine Sekkiou, an influencer adept at unconventional medicine, employs nutritionists and naturopaths, officially in “synergy” with doctors in Belgium. Without ever having met their patients, the latter nevertheless prescribed heavy drug treatments, sometimes very controversial treatments, as the newspaper had initially revealed at the end of April. Provence.
Mainly attracted by the charisma of Hocine Sekkiou, known for his videos on Instagram concerning health issues, since 2021 thousands of patients from all over the world have called on this “holistic” health center, supposed to take into account each patient in its globality, “biology, experience and environment”. With the promise of multidisciplinary and individualized care.
However, according to numerous testimonies collected, the medical follow-up offered was identical or almost identical for all patients, whatever their pathologies: thyroid problems, infertility or long Covid. All for an exorbitant cost not covered by Social Security. “Hocine (Sekkiou) boasted of being a doctor in biochemistry and of responding to medical wandering. I drank his words, with him I felt like I was finally listened to, ”said an ex-patient.
Now seized of a collective complaint from patients, the Marseille prosecutor’s office had already been alerted to this file on May 4, via a report from the Regional Health Agency (ARS) Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur. The Order of Physicians was seized for illegal practice of medicine. The Interministerial Mission for Vigilance and the Fight against Sectarian Aberrations (Miviludes) specified that it had made a report to the Aix-en-Provence prosecutor’s office.