Dominique, 64, from Coulogne, is a man overwhelmed by grief. His wife, Bernadette, 61, is died suddenly during the night of Monday 5 to Tuesday 6 April. She had just been helicoptered to Roger-Salengro hospital in Lille, after being admitted to the emergency room of the Calais hospital. ” She was in terrible pain, bleeding », Says Dominique, his voice tied.
In a few hours, he was terrified to learn that his wife ” will not spend the night. Dominique has just enough time to arrive to accompany his wife in the last moments.
Paralyzing pain
From the first treatment of his wife, Dominique tells emergency doctors that Bernadette, who had not seen her GP for two years, does not present, according to him, either pathology or allergy. Notable information, she has just been vaccinated against Covid-19 with the AstraZeneca, around which doubts have been expressed in Europe.
« I had been informed by my pension fund that I could be vaccinated, details this former banking advisor. At the pharmacy, I was told that my wife, a carer for the elderly, was eligible for vaccination.. This is how the spouses together receive an injection on March 26.
« My wife worked the next few days but a week later complained of stomach pain, then had diarrhea and vomiting. She was a little better then, until Easter Monday when the pain paralyzed her … Until this moment, Bernadette had not consulted a doctor.
Multiple thromboses
At Roger-Salengro, the hypothesis of thrombosis is raised and it is proposed to perform an autopsy to investigate the causes of death. At the end of June, Dominique receives the report. This concludes with a ” infarction, thrombosis of the aorta and branches of division, thrombosis of the portal vein ». Multiple blood clots resulting in an occlusion which he believes reinforces the hypothesis of a link with the injection (2).
In a March letter from AstraZeneca to healthcare professionals, we read about the risks of thrombocytopenia that ” the benefits outweigh the risks despite possible links to very rare cases of blood clots. A combination of thrombosis, in some cases accompanied by bleeding, has been observed very rarely (…) some cases with fatal outcome ».
The complaint ” against X for manslaughter »Was filed on Saturday June 26th. Pascal Marconville, prosecutor in Boulogne-sur-Mer, confirms “ the opening of an investigation », The first procedure of this type for its jurisdiction. ” The case could also be managed by the health center of the Paris court. “We are moving towards the opening of a judicial investigation.
(1) Dominique, whose real first name is, did not want his last name to be published. (2) Contacted, the National Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM), on the grounds of confidentiality rules, and the company AstraZeneca, due to the ongoing instruction, did not wish to comment.
Twenty suspicious death cases for the lawyer of a Nantes student
Me Étienne Boittin, lawyer in Saint-Nazaire, was publicized in France after the death in March of a 24-year-old student from Nantes (death of a thrombosis after an AstraZeneca injection, investigation underway). Since then, this lawyer specializing in personal injury compensation has received numerous reports of complications possibly related to AstraZeneca (3). ” I deal with about twenty cases of suspicious deaths, plus about thirty cases of complications after injection », He begins. ” The most important in the autopsy report is the anatomopathological report: pathologies are looked for, with organ fragments one examines traces of bleeding, this makes it possible to date the thromboses. Also important element, the genetic profile. »In order to know if the victim was not predisposed to complications. The report available to the Coulonnois does not bring together, a priori, all these elements.
A simple autopsy report is not enough to prove cause and effect, hence the importance of this additional research, which can be carried out after exhumation of the body. Impossible to establish in France the number of files thus under investigation, no figure appearing in ” incomplete statistics from the National Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM) “, According to the lawyer.
(3) According to a survey by “The World”, the AstraZeneca vaccine is the most widely distributed in the world. At the beginning of June, more than 5 million French people had received it.
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