Sanofi is facing separate charges of aggravated fraud and unintentionally causing injury. FMTNews
PARIS: A court on Thursday ordered the French state to pay tens of thousands of euros in damages after finding it responsible in a case over birth defects linked to an anti-epilepsy drug produced by pharmaceutical giant Sanofi.
The court ruled that Sanofi and doctors who prescribed the drug Depakine were also responsible, in a scandal that has left between 15,000 and 30,000 children affected, studies have found. “But I’m angry because 80% of the children born before 2004 are excluded from compensation,” she said, adding that autism means the children are disabled for life.
In a case of a child born in 1985, the court followed the expert and ruled that the risks of physical defects were known and should have alerted the authorities, but that the risks of autism were not clear at the time.
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