The Mediator trial opened on September 23, 2019 in Paris. – VALINCO / SIPA
The Paris prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday that it had appealed against the partial release of Servier laboratories in the Mediator case, a drug held responsible for hundreds of deaths and one of the worst French health scandals.
Servier laboratories were sentenced on March 29 to a fine of 2.718 million euros for “aggravated deception” and “unintentional homicides and injuries”, but acquitted of the offenses of improperly obtaining marketing authorization and fraud. The prosecution’s appeal concerns these last two offenses, it is specified in a press release from the public prosecutor.