Christian Perronne

Perronne and France-Soir director Xavier Azalbert submitted a complaint to the Court of Justice of the Republic accusing Health Minister Aurélien Rousseau of 'attempted fraud to obtain vaccination consent' in relation to the Covid campaign. The petitions committee dismissed the complaint, finding the evidence insufficient to establish an offence.

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Protagonist is the complainant

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Aurélien Rousseau

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Protagonist not prosecuted

Appearing on RMC in August 2020, Perronne claimed that Covid 'no longer kills', that the epidemic was declining again and that it was a 'great delusion' being exploited. The CSA formally warned RMC and RMC Story for failing to meet requirements of honesty and rigour, finding that the remarks clearly did not reflect the epidemiological situation. The Conseil d'État upheld this aspect in 2022.

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The Île-de-France first-instance disciplinary chamber dismissed all allegations made against Perronne by the National Medical Council. It found, among other things, that he had not engaged in the alleged anti-vaccination discourse, that he had the standing of an expert to speak publicly and that he had not promoted an illusory remedy within the relevant disciplinary meaning.

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During media appearances in 2021, Perronne claimed, among other things, that vaccines did not prevent severe illness or deaths as promised, and downplayed the development of new waves. Available hospital and vaccine effectiveness data contradicted several of these claims.

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Before the pandemic, Perronne had already taken distinctive positions in the debate about chronic Lyme disease. He publicly supported hypotheses that ticks had been modified by a Nazi scientist who moved to the United States and that American military or scientific responsibility for the epidemic had been concealed.

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Perronne publicly supported hydroxychloroquine despite mounting randomised trial evidence showing no clinical benefit against Covid-19. He also claimed that prohibiting or abandoning the treatment might have cost many lives and accused certain opponents of connections to pharmaceutical interests.

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Christian Perronne appears in the documentary 'Hold-Up', a viral feature-length film advancing numerous false or misleading theories about the pandemic, public health policies, vaccines and an alleged strategy of global control.

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Perronne described messenger RNA vaccines as a form of gene therapy and raised the possibility of RNA integrating into human chromosomes. The biological mechanisms invoked were inconsistent with the documented functioning of these vaccines, and specialists refuted the claim.

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The AP-HP director-general removed Perronne as head of the infectious and tropical diseases department at Raymond-Poincaré Hospital. The hospital cited repeated public statements deemed unworthy of the role, personal attacks and failure to comply with an opinion issued by its ethics committee; a complaint was lodged with the Medical Council.

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