Doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine. – Arnulfo Franco / AP / SIPA
He was found dead on March 18 in his apartment in Nantes. The first results of the autopsy had concluded that the young man had died after “internal bleeding due to thrombosis”. The investigation to determine the causes of the death of a medical student several days after being vaccinated against Covid-19 with the AstraZeneca vaccine has been transferred from the Nantes prosecutor’s office to the Paris prosecutor’s office, the lawyer for Paris announced on Wednesday. family.
“We seized the local prosecution for the sake of speed of our complaints to have autopsies by then asking them to transfer the file to Paris”, explained Me Etienne Boittin, lawyer of the family. “We have written confirmation of Anthony’s transfer [l’étudiant nantais décédé] and the other cases should reasonably follow the same fate, ”added the lawyer.
The Paris prosecutor’s office has a public health center, which is not the case with the Nantes prosecutor’s office. The final results of the autopsy of the young man who died at 26 years old should be known “within a few days”, according to the same source.
About fifteen similar cases?
The lawyer said to be seized of fifteen cases of people who died in France after having been vaccinated at AstraZeneca, overwhelmingly “under 60 years”, said the lawyer based in Saint-Nazaire, stressing that the families of the victims are now eager to “know the conclusions of the autopsies”.
On Monday, the European Union announced that it had sued the AstraZeneca laboratory for not having kept its commitments on deliveries of its anti-Covid vaccine, a procedure that the Swedish-British group immediately deemed “unfounded”.
The use of the AstraZeneca vaccine has been restricted in most countries of the European Union due to the very rare cases of thrombosis it can cause. Denmark no longer uses it.