Case of tainted blood: Trial verdict against the four doctors

Case of tainted blood: Trial verdict against the four doctors

Judgment in the tainted blood trial: maximum sentence for Doctor GARRETTA: 4 years in prison and 500,000 francs in fine. The former director of the National Center of Sanguine Transfusion currently in the United States is the subject of an arrest warrant, his deputy, Dr Jean Pierre ALLAIN is also sentenced to four years in prison, and four-year-old Professor Jacques ROUX, Dr. NETTER was released. Doctors GARRETTA and ALLAIN convicted of deception were sentenced to pay 9 million 200,000 francs to the victims. Lively reactions from victims following a hearing that lasted only 15 minutes. Outrage from Joëlle BOUCHET, the mother of a contaminated hemophiliac. Michel GARRETTA’s lawyer, François MORETTE, comments on the judgment. Statement by Patrice GAUDIN, father of Laurent and Stéphane, on the judgment. Interview with Jean PERON GARVANOFF, President of the Polytransfused Association on the verdict. Interview with Sabine PAUGAM, lawyer for the civil party.

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File : Tainted blood case

Publication date : 23 October 1992