"French Senate Asks Ex-Premier's Trial in HIV Affair"

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"French Senate Asks Ex-Premier's Trial in HIV Affair"

Boston Globe (12/21/92)

Abstract: The French Senate decided yesterday to abide by the recommendation of the National Assembly and put former prime minister, Laurent Fabius, on trial for the scandal involving HIV-infected blood products. The upper house vote cleared the way for Fabius, now leader of the governing Socialist Party, and two former ministers to stand trial before a parliamentary High Court on charges of neglecting to assist persons in danger. The Socialists took the legal action in the parliament after controversy among the public greeted their decision to stop similar action last week. The motion says that former social affairs ministers, Georgina Dufoix, and former health minister, Edmond Herve, should also stand trial. The Assembly and Senate resolutions will be submitted to the Supreme Court, which will determine whether there are sufficient grounds to bring the three former ministers to a trial. Fabius served as prime minister in 1985 when 1,200 hemophiliacs contracted HIV from a blood product that had not been heated, even though this process for destroying the virus was known. Since then, 300 have died. According to Fabius, he was unaware that the blood products might have been tainted with HIV.

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