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Verdict on the Mediator. The appeal trial for Mediator, an antidiabetic drug used as an appetite suppressant, will reach its conclusion this Wednesday, December 20 with the decision of the Paris Court of Appeal concerning the Servier laboratory, judged in particular for aggravated deception and homicide and involuntary injuries. During this trial, which took place from January to June, the public prosecutor’s office demanded a fine of 13.5 million euros against the second French medical laboratory and the “confiscation” of its profits linked to Mediator, i.e. 182 million euros according to his calculations. Marketed in 1976 as an adjuvant to antidiabetic treatments, but often unduly prescribed as an appetite suppressant until its ban in 2009, Mediator, a flagship molecule from Servier, has caused serious cardiovascular damage in thousands of patients. He is held responsible for hundreds of deaths.
READ ALSO Mediator: Irène Frachon denounces Servier’s “monstrous” behaviorRequisitions in the Zepeda trial. The end of Nicolas Zepeda’s trial is approaching, with the requisitions this Wednesday from the attorney general before the Haute-Saône assizes where the Chilean has been appearing for two and a half weeks for the assassination of his ex-girlfriend Narumi Kurosaki. The accused has always maintained his innocence: “I am completely unrelated to this disappearance,” he maintained again this week. Sentenced at first instance to 28 years in prison, Nicolas Zepeda faces life imprisonment.
READ ALSO Narumi affair: the main suspect, extradited by Chile, indicted for assassinationThe UN still disagrees. The UN Security Council, unable to find a compromise on a resolution aimed at accelerating humanitarian aid to Gaza, has once again postponed the vote on a text calling for a “suspension” of hostilities in the Palestinian territory. Less than two weeks after an American veto, the vote postponed several times since Monday is now scheduled for Wednesday, several diplomatic sources indicated, while negotiations continue to allow the Council to speak with one voice. On December 8, despite unprecedented pressure from UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, the United States blocked the adoption of a resolution calling for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip where the he Israeli army continues its deadly strikes in retaliation for the unprecedented bloody attack by Hamas on October 7.
READ ALSO West Bank: in Kiryat Arba, Israeli settlers determined to put an end to the PalestiniansCongo at the polls. They are for change or continuity, full of hope or without any illusion, but everyone, in Kinshasa the capital, Goma or Lubumbashi in the east, want to believe in elections without violence and correctly organized on Wednesday in the Democratic Republic of Congo. . In a tense climate, nearly 44 million voters, out of around 100 million inhabitants, are called upon to elect their president, as well as their national and provincial deputies and their municipal councilors. In the presidential election, the outgoing head of state, Félix Tshisekedi, to whom the Electoral Commission assigned 20 as his candidacy number, is seeking a second term against 18 candidates from a fragmented opposition, which was unable to agree on a common candidate to tackle this single-round election.
Parcoursup opens. Future students will be able, from this Wednesday, to access the Parcoursup platform. The information section will be available for the start of the 2024 academic year.
Last meeting of Ligue 1. The 18 Ligue 1 teams have one last meeting to conclude this calendar year 2023. Some great displays are on the program for this Wednesday evening: OGC Nice hosts RC Lens, Paris-Saint Germain faces FC Metz, Marseille moves to Montpellier. Kick-off at 9 p.m.
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