Four years after the contaminated infant milk case, families are still waiting for answers. The investigation conducted by the Health department of the Paris prosecutor’s office is still not closed, and no indictment has taken place to date. In question, the lack of means of justice in France estimate the associations of defense of the victims and their lawyers.
Our children are growing up, and we still have no answers
“It’s outrageous that we waited so long, plague Quentin Guillemain, president of the association of victims of contaminated milk from the Craon factory. Our children are growing up, and we still have no answers “. The daughter of Quentin Guillemain, at the time aged three months, consumed contaminated infant milk of the Picot brand, from tower n ° 1 of the Craon factory, without falling ill.
Since the custody of the CEO of Lactalis and fifteen of his employees in December 2019, there have still been no indictments. Last year, a civil party lawyer explained to us that the investigating judges of the Health department of the Paris park were struggling to “unravel the chains of responsibility” in the case.
The sign of a sick justice
“This slowness is above all the sign of a sick Justice in France, estimates Quentin Guillemain. In regular contact with the magistrates of the Health department of the Paris prosecutor’s office, he tells us about their distress in the face of lack of resources, and the accumulation of cases since the Covid-19 crisis. “They even decided to leave the ship, it’s serious!”. Quentin Guillemain hopes that the arrival of new judges will speed up the closing of the investigation in the coming weeks.
Same observation, same anger for the lawyer of part of the civil parties, Jade Dousselin, “We can only regret that this procedure like so many others is a victim of our sick Justice. The victims of this major health scandal are entitled, almost four years after the facts, to have answers and those responsible . “