The naturopath is indicted in particular for “illegal practice of medicine” and “misleading commercial practices”. He is the subject of dozens of reports to the Interministerial Mission which fights against sectarian aberrations.
A guru of “cruvidorism” in the eye of justice. Thierry Casasnovas, who has nearly 600,000 subscribers and more than 80 million views on YouTube, was indicted on Friday March 10 by the Perpignan prosecutor’s office, franceinfo learned from the Perpignan public prosecutor’s office. He had been in custody since Tuesday. Thierry Casasnovas is prosecuted for “breach of trust”, “forgery and use of forgery”, “illegal practice of medicine”, “illegal practice of pharmacy”, “misleading commercial practices”, “misuse of corporate assets”, “laundering “, and “abuse of weakness”.
Thierry Casasnovas is considered a “slipper” (contraction of two words: skid and therapist). The Interministerial Mission for vigilance and the fight against sectarian aberrations (Miviludes) defines the “dérapeute” as a therapist who has deviated by proposing an unproven method, i.e. a therapeutic aberration, or by using this method not proven to establish a sectarian drift. Therapeutic drift and sectarian drift are not always juxtaposable, specifies the institution.
Thierry Casasnovas is considered the “most reported person” with Miviludes, explained the institution in an article in the newspaper Le Parisien (article reserved for subscribers). In 2021, the Interministerial Mission handled 54 referrals relating to this 48-year-old Catalan naturopath who lives in the Pyrénées-Orientales. On his Youtube channel, he makes videos in which he provides his health advice highlighting the practice of fasting and raw food, a diet based on raw foods. It offers “generic advice on food, and more broadly on lifestyle, for people wishing to adopt a more natural approach”.
AIDS considered “a hoax”
For the naturopath, the pathologies decline from food. He also accuses drugs and vaccination of being harmful to health, says Miviludes in its 2021 activity report. On cancer, he did not hesitate to qualify the disease “like a marketing operation” and “chemotherapy has never cured cancer”. The Conspiracy Watch site, which aims to be an observatory of conspiracy, noted that in a Youtube video of October 4, 2014 entitled “Do you have cancer?”, Thierry Casasnovas explained that “when you have cancer cells that are mutating completely, to stop feeding them only with toxic products […] and start feeding them with what we are made for, and from then on, cancer, you forget about it”. The naturopath then advises “a juice cleanse” And “Above all” to alternate “periods of fasting and periods of non-fasting”.
AIDS is, according to him, the “formidable deception of the century” in a live YouTube of May 5, 2020 and that the“We created something out of nothing. We made it [du sida] a big problem that did not exist and that we justified by lifelong treatments that brought nothing”. He advises the people concerned to stop their treatments which, according to him, do not “useless”. On the Covid-19, Thierry Casasnovas assures him: “The coronavirus, if I were Minister of Health, it would be resolved quicklyhe launches in one of his since deleted videos. Cold bath and fasting for everyone, a little carrot juice and I’ll send you.”
Departure then return to YouTube
In June 2021, the naturopath announces that he is stopping his YouTube channel and retiring “of public life”. Then, he returns in a video in April 2022 where he announces season 2 of his videos linked to his website. On this site it is said that“in view of the censorship we are subject to through classic hosts, we have therefore made the decision for this new season and the following ones, to host our videos ourselves.” The site offers training to understand the fundamentals of “vitalism and hygiene” through courses on the internet from 150 euros or internships from 800 euros. Miviludes points out that Thierry Casanovas also sold many derivative products such as a juice extractor for 300 euros and magazines for 20 euros. Activities that the institution qualifies as “very lucrative”.
The Interministerial Mission believes above all that “the mental influence that this individual would exert on fragile people, the isolation induced by his remarks, the break with the previous environment, the antisocial discourse and the exorbitant nature of the financial demands are observable criteria in this situation and are likely to favor a sectarian drift”. Miviludes quotes in particular an applicant who considers that a member of his family would be under the influence of Thierry Casasnovas and “started to follow her dietary advice until she became frugivorous, drank distilled water, and treated herself only by alternative methods. She also denounced the ‘conspiracies’ carried out by official medicine and science, concerning for example the relationship between gluten allergy and autism. His psychological and family situation has gradually worsened and his state of health does not seem good”.