Marseille IHU searched as part of an investigation opened in 2022

Since the morning of May 31, the IHU Méditerranée Infection, founded by Professor Didier Raoult, has been searched as part of the judicial investigation opened in 2022 by the Marseille prosecutor’s office. “It’s going very well”IHU Secretary General Camille Grosso told Agence France-Presse (AFP) and specified that this search, which revealed JDD and is carried out by the gendarmes of the Central Office for Combating Attacks on the Environment and Public Health (Oclaesp). “Continuity of Accounts” by the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines (ANSM) in October 2021 and May 2022.

It was after these reports from the ANSM that the prosecutor’s office in Marseille opened a judicial investigation on July 4, 2022. “wrong spelling”, “Using forgery in writing” and “Interventional research involving an intervention on a person that is not justified by their usual care, without a report from the Committee for the Protection of Persons and authorization from the ANSM”.

ANSM noted in particular “Serious Violations of the Regulation of Research with Human Participation”in clinical trials. No charges have been filed at this stage of the judicial investigation, the Marseille prosecutor’s office told AFP in late May.

This search takes place three days after publication on Sunday the world A platform that condemns the lack of sanctions in light of the treatment proposed by the IHU teams for patients with Covid-19, in particular the treatment based on hydroxychloroquine, which qualifies as “The Most Famous ‘Wild’ Therapeutic Trial”.

Discredited positions

In this forum, the sixteen learned medical societies involved in the study blame the IHU Mediterranee infection teams. “Systemic prescription for patients with Kovid-19 (…) Medications are as varied as hydroxychloroquine, zinc, ivermectin or azithromycin (…) without a solid pharmacological basis and in the absence of any evidence of efficacy”.

More seriously, they said, these prescriptions continued “More than a year after the official demonstration of their ineffectiveness”. The government should accept it “Measures adapted to mistakes made”namely, by name “Reliability of French Medical Research”they concluded.

Professor Didier Raoult, who gained media notoriety for taking now-discredited positions on Covid-19, particularly regarding the alleged effectiveness of treatments such as hydroxychloroquine, was published in March. “Print Ahead”That is, the unreviewed version of the study of more than 30,000 patients with Covid-19.