Lawyer Eric Lanzarone claims a 13-year-old boy went nearly blind days following receiving the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. He denounces a clause making the company irresponsible in its contracts with France.
For several days, lawyer Eric Lanzarone has been touring the media to alert the case of one of his clients, a 13-year-old child who allegedly suffered a serious side effect. following an injection of the Pfizer anti-Covid vaccine. Questioned by France 3 on January 29, Eric Lanzarone thus declared to have “been seized with a Parisian colleague by a family whose child has lost 90% of his sight, five days following the injection of his first dose”.
“To defend our client, we had to turn once morest the manufacturer of this vaccine which, in this case, is Pfizer,” he adds before revealing that following finding the contract “on the official website of the European Commission […] a clause has appeared which effectively releases Pfizer from all liability in the event of the occurrence of potential adverse effects”.
State scandal? #Pfizer not responsible in the event of undesirable effects, according to a clause of the contract signed with the French State. Me Lanzarone, is attacking the company on behalf of his client, a 13-year-old child who lost 90% of his sight following his first dose. pic.twitter.com/IiVuvqGIuW
– France 3 Provence (@France3Provence) January 29, 2022
The lawyer considers that this clause was “imposed by Pfizer which […] without it, absolutely would not have signed the contract with France [et] the other Member States”. “I believe that this clause appears in all the other contracts signed with Pfizer and European countries,” continues the lawyer.
“The question that arises: ‘Who will compensate the child?’ I let you imagine the distress of his family and of this 13-year-old teenager, ”he underlines.
On Sud Radio on January 28, the lawyer declared that he and his client were going to turn “ once morest the producer of the vaccine, the company Pfizer”, but deplored the complexity of the procedure: “But this is where […] it’s a drama, […] Pfizer with regard to the non-responsibility clause contained in the contract […] will turn once morest the state.
He thus announced that “legally”, Pfizer would probably then “turn once morest the State, which will claim that the irresponsibility clause is not binding on it, [et] the Pfizer company will answer the same thing”.
With the radio, Eric Lanzarone also estimated that the procedure would last for years. However, “my client, a young teenager cannot wait 10 years, he is severely handicapped and his house is not suitable”, he worries, affirming that the child is currently “out of school”. If he confesses that the National Office for Compensation for Medical Accidents (Oniam) “might have been a possibility for activating much faster compensation [mais] lesser”, Oniam has a budget of around “15 million euros”. However, in view of the damage suffered by his client, the lawyer estimated the compensation “between 6 and 7 million euros”.
At the time of publication of this article, neither Pfizer nor the French government have reacted to the announcement of this procedure.