Court Ruling, AIDS Vote Cause Outcry in France

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Court Ruling, AIDS Vote Cause Outcry in France

Reuters (10/27/93)

Paris--A court ruling in an AIDS lawsuit and a parliamentary vote on HIV testing Wednesday triggered outrage in France. In the northern town of Metz, Judge Margareth Stagier placed a mother and father under investigation for failing to caution their daughter's boyfriend about her HIV-positive status. The man, identified only as Fabien, became infected with the virus and sued the girl, who was placed under investigation last year for suspected poisoning. "If [the parents] had warned my client, he would not have been infected with the deadly virus," attested Marie Laurence Folmer, Fabien's attorney. Stagier's decision drew immediate criticism from the magistrates' union, which denounced the ruling as a irresponsible, brutal, and dangerous interference and accused Stagier of overstepping her limits in an area best left to public health authorities. Human rights activists said the judge's ruling could cause HIV-infected individuals to hide their condition from family and have "a clandestine sex life." The second incident, the Senate vote Tuesday night for mandatory testing for the AIDS virus of all tuberculosis patients, also drew widespread condemnation. Health Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy called the amendment dangerous.

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