It is the first case with regard to a deformation in the womb: a pregnant French woman injected the weed reproduction glyphosate into the dressage square of a driving school, her son Theo was then born with serious handicaps. Now the 17-year-old the Bayer group sues.
In this context in this context in the French city of Vienne, the manufacturer Bayer had to answer in this context. “I represent everyone who was born with a disability,” explains the 17 -year -old Theo in court, who was born without vocal cords and is understandable with the help of the esophagus.
Claimants want to create “precedent”
With the process, the Theos and he not only want to sue the right of the disabled boy, but also create a precedent in the hope of a guilty verdict. If you could achieve this, from the lawyer of the Theos family, Bertrand Recolt, the handicap would be recognized as a result of the glyphosate mission.
The German pharmaceutical group does not have to answer in court for the first time. This had been charged several times for cancer in connection with glyphosate. However, this was the first case that deals with a deformation in the womb, the lawyer explained. The family first calls for the determination of responsibility and ultimately also Bayer compensation.
Theo was served 55 times
The mother of the boy Sabine Grataloup circles the pharmaceutical giant that he had “triggered” the harmfulness of the agent. This has contributed to the use of glyphosate in different countries. The mother had used the remedy in 2006 when she didn’t know she was pregnant. Theo was born with an adult air and esophagus and has been operated 55 times since birth.
His parents sued the Monsanto group in 2018, which had just been taken over by Bayer at the time. Monsanto had supplied the glyphosate for the weed murderer glyper. The claimant emphasizes that “there was no indication of possible damage to unborn people in the packaging.
In 2022, a French fund for victims of pesticides acknowledged the relationship between the malformations of Theo and the use of glyphosate. Since then, the 17-year-old has received a monthly fee of 1,000 euros.
“Probably carcinogen”
Glyphosate is the most used ingredient in pesticides worldwide, especially in weed destruction, such as the Roundup produced by Bayer. In various legal proceedings, the company was sentenced to compensation, but was acquitted in others. In many cases, comparisons were achieved. In 2015, the International Agency for Cancer Research (IARC) classified glyphosate as “probably carcinogen”, in which the experts emphasized that this assessment does not yet prove that the application actually causes cancer.
The remedy in France has been forbidden for private use since 2018, but approval in Europe was extended for another ten years under certain requirements at the end of 2023.
Source: Krone
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