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According to information from France Info, an investigation has been opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office for “involuntary homicides” following the numerous contaminations with the E.Coli bacterium and the deaths of two children.
While the number of cases contaminated by the Escherichia Coli bacteria in Fraich’Up Buitoni pizzas is increasing, the Paris prosecutor’s office is opening an investigation, France Info announced on Friday April 1. The media also reveals that two complaints were filed in Bordeaux by two parents whose children were hospitalized. The brand is accused of having caused several contaminations that caused the death of two children.
An investigation for “involuntary homicides”
Investigations will be carried out in order to determine if the Escherichia Coli strain is indeed the cause of the hospitalizations and the two deaths. “The public health center (PSP), on divestiture of the Nancy and Saint-Malo public prosecutor’s offices and in application of its jurisdiction in matters of offenses affecting health”, took up the investigation, explained the Paris prosecutor’s office to AFP. It deals with offenses of “cheating on goods, display or sale of corrupt or falsified food products harmful to health, placing on the market of a product harmful to health, endangering others, involuntary injuries and involuntary homicides”.
The investigations are entrusted to the Central Office for the Fight against Damage to the Environment and Public Health (OCLAESP), the General Directorate of the National Gendarmerie, the Investigations Department of the General Directorate for Competition, Consumer and Fraud Prevention (DGCCRF) and the National Veterinary and Phytosanitary Investigation Brigade (BNEVP) of the Ministry of Agriculture.
Cases of hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS)
Since the beginning of the year, 75 cases have been under investigation, including 41 serious cases of haemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) in children. In question ? Bacteria contamination Escherichia coli. 34 additional cases are still under investigation and two children have died from this infection.
For the past two weeks, health authorities have been carrying out a massive pizza recall. These contaminations with E. coli bacteria cause kidney failure which occurs in children. If the link between the disease and the consumption of these pizzas were not sure a few weeks ago, today it is confirmed, announced in a press release the general direction of health.