2023-04-17 17:05:39
The French branch of Nestlé has pledged to compensate dozens of victims of the Buitoni pizza scandal contaminated with the bacteria Escherichia coliunder an agreement “amicable compensation” signed on March 31, closing this civil aspect of the case, the parties announced on Monday April 17 without disclosing the amount. Two children died and dozens of others fell seriously ill following the ingestion in 2022 of pizzas from the Fraîch’Up range of Buitoni, a subsidiary of Nestlé.
“In order to contribute, within a reasonable time, to the appeasement of the victims and their families, Nestlé France has decided to enroll in an amicable compensation process”announced Nestlé France. “Each of the persons concerned will receive from Nestlé France a compensation proposal, which will follow a medical assessment and which will take into account, in an equitable manner, the seriousness of the damage and each situation”underlined the subsidiary of the Swiss giant, world number one in the food industry.
This process should “allow in the long term a fair reparation commensurate with their damages”, explained in a separate press release the lawyer Pierre Debuisson, who represents sixty-three victims. Mr. Debuisson had sued Nestlé for gross negligence before the Nanterre court and requested compensation of up to 250 million euros for his customers. The hearing was set for May 9. The amicable agreement suspends this assignment.
“The criminal action is on course”
“In the context of civil procedure, amicable agreements are usual and make it possible to put an end to civil litigation without extinguishing the criminal action” who she, “takes its course”Nestlé told Agence France-Presse.
Judicial information was opened in May 2022 in Paris, in particular for manslaughter once morest two victims and for involuntary injuries once morest fourteen others, according to a judicial source. Nestlé has not yet been indicted.
On March 18, 2022, the group recalled its pizzas and closed the two production lines of the Buitoni factory in Caudry, in the North, following cases of serious poisoning by the bacteria. E. coli and the death of two children. 1is April 2022, the prefecture had banned any activity there, the health authorities having established a link with the consumption of Fraîch’Up pizzas. A year following the affair, Nestlé announced at the end of March the permanent closure of the Caudry factory, which had partially restarted in mid-December, citing a drop in sales.
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