The court delivered its deliberations and rejected the request for expertise and the request for payment requested by the player.
Since April 2024, theformer footballer François-Xavier Fumu Tamuzo was in lawsuit against the Pfizer and BioNTech laboratories as well as the French Football Federation.
The former midfielder notably spent with Auxerre and Laval wanted to establish a link between the Covid vaccinemade compulsory by the FFF in July 2021, and his repeated injuries between 2021 and 2023 which forced him to retire.
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The court considers that the player's injuries relate to his professional practice
The Paris judicial court delivered its deliberations on Friday, November 8. The court rejected the request for expertise and the request for payment requested by François-Xavier Fumu Tamuzo and his lawyers, announce France Blue Mayenne et Republican Yonne.
The court found that the player's injuries were related to his professional practice, at the same time ruling out hypotheses linked to the vaccine.
Appel
The player and his lawyers”will appeal to the court of appeal to contest the decision rendered by the judge and obtain this expertise“, reacts Maître Éric Lanzarone to France 3 Burgundy-Franche-Comté.
As a reminder, the benefit-risk balance of the anti-Covid vaccine is largely positive since the start of the vaccination campaign. All studies published since then also demonstrate that the vaccine prevents, in the vast majority, serious forms of the disease.
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