2024-01-10 12:32:36
Suspected of having influenced the senator responsible for an information report in 2011 without informing her that he was collaborating with the Servier laboratories implicated in the Mediator affair, Doctor Claude Griscelli was dismissed by the order of doctors at the end of December. Aged 87, this professor of pediatrics would have failed in his obligations of “morality and probity”, according to the Disciplinary Chamber of Île-de-France of the Order of Physicians.
The pharmaceutical group Servier, which marketed Mediator, an antidiabetic drug used as an appetite suppressant and held responsible for several hundred deaths, was heavily condemned by the Paris Court of Appeal last December. He will have to pay a total fine of 9.173 million euros and reimburse more than 415 million euros to social security and mutual organizations.
Bribery
A widely publicized case in which Claude Griscelli was tried for influence peddling. The latter was in fact suspected of having influenced Senator Marie-Thérèse Hermange to modify the wording of a report in which the responsibility of the Servier laboratories was mentioned. A trial at the end of which the caregiver was finally acquitted.
However, according to the order of doctors, this court decision “does not preclude” a disciplinary sanction. Claude Griscelli “was linked since 2001 to the Servier laboratories by consulting contracts”, which carried “an annual remuneration of around 90,000 euros”, recalled the Disciplinary Chamber.
Reaction from victims’ lawyers
The judicial information made it possible to determine that Claude Griscelli had had “telephone or SMS exchanges throughout the work of the senatorial mission with Ms. Hermange”, whom he had met “the day before” the report was delivered, the day on which it introduced “modifications, in particular on the evaluation of the number of deaths”. However, according to the Disciplinary Chamber, the doctor had not informed the senator of his link with the laboratories.
According to the lawyers of Mediator victims, this removal “represents an opportunity to remind all health professionals”, doctors and pharmaceutical laboratories, “that it is not possible to ignore its links of interest and use its influence in the interests of industrialists once morest the superior interests of public health and patients.”
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