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2017. február 13., hétfő 09:00 |
Hearing Date of Thalidomide Lawsuit in Germany announced |
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Germany, 13 February 2017. (APA/ OTS) - 60 years after the market launch of Contergan (active ingredient: thalidomide), the greatest pharmaceutical scandal in the Federal Republic of Germany continues to boil. A lawsuit will be heard in the Bonn Regional Court at 12:00 hrs on 15.2.2017 that is more explosive than appears at first sight. |
The Contergan victim Andreas Meyer, who was born without arms or
legs and is confined to a wheelchair, is suing the former member of
the Management Board of the Contergan Foundation, Attorney Karl
Schucht, for injunction and rectification.
In a letter to the members of the Family Affairs Committee of the
German Federal Parliament, Schucht had asserted that Meyer, as an
expert witness at a public hearing of the Committee, had publicly
stated various untruths about events connected with the Contergan
Foundation.
Meyer had said among other things that for 30 years the Contergan
(thalidomide) manufacturer Grünenthal GmbH had had access to the
medical files of the Contergan victims in the Contergan Foundation.
In addition, Grünenthal had also paid the Foundation's medical
experts.
In his letter, Schucht asserted to the contrary that Grünenthal had
at no time had access to the medical files of the Contergan victims,
but that the files were always kept by the Contergan Foundation.
Further, he asserted that the experts of the Medical Commission were
always paid from the funds of the Contergan Foundation.
Why so explosive? Because if Meyer wins the lawsuit it will mean
that not only Schucht had told untruths to the members of
Parliament. No, the Federal Government had also told untruths to
Parliament.
Because the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, which has been
responsible for supervision of the Contergan Foundation since 1972,
stated in a reply to a Minor Interpellation by the Parliamentary
Group Die Linke that Schucht's letter also expressed the opinion of
the Federal Government.
A pivotal question, according to Meyer, is the double role of
Attorney Herbert Wartensleben who has also been invited as a witness
by the Bonn Regional Court. From 1972 until the end of 2003,
Wartensleben was not only Chairman of the Medical Commission of the
Contergan Foundation, which judges whether a victim is or is not
damaged by Contergan and also evaluates the degree of damage - on
the basis of which the amount of the Contergan pension is assessed,
for example. Since the Contergan trial, Wartensleben acted again and
again as the legal representative of Grünenthal in cases relating to
Contergan; most recently in 2007 in the lawsuits concerning the
two-part ARD feature film "Eine einzige Tablette" (One single
tablet).
"The case deals with the question of whether the Contergan
Foundation was, or perhaps still is, an undercover subsidiary of
Grünenthal under the eyes of the Federal Government," said Meyer.
Meyer will be represented by Prof. Dr. Jan Hegemann from the law
firm Raue Rechtsanwälte LLP in Berlin. Attorney Prof. Dr. Jan
Hegemann already successfully represented Meyer in 2009 in the case
of Meyer's call to boycott the products of Dalli-Werke, Mäurer &
Wirtz and 4711 - companies belonging to Grünenthal's owner. Attorney
Karl Schucht will be represented by Attorneys Gernot Lehr and Tobias
Würkert LLM from the Bonn office of the law firm Redeker Sellner
Dahs. For Meyer, this is significant. The founder of that law firm,
Prof. Dr. Hans Dahs senior who died in 1972, represented the late
owner of Grünenthal, Dr. Hermann Wirtz senior, in the Contergan
trial.
Place and date of the court hearing
Date: 15.2.2017 Time: 12:00 hrs Place: Bonn Regional Court, Wilhelmstraße 21, 53111 Bonn Room: Courtroom S. 0.15 (Saalbau)
You can find further important information at the following link:
http://www.gruenenthal-opfer.de/Materials_Meyer_vs_Schucht_15_2_2017
Contact:
Federation of Thalidomide Sufferers and Grünenthal Victims c/o Mr Andreas Meyer (Chairman) Dohmengasse 7 , 50829 Köln Email: bcg-brd-dachverband@gmx.de Website: www.Grünenthal-opfer.de Mobile: +49 (0)172 / 2905974
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