When Anne Le Beuz learned that a tumor the size of a large tangerine was hidden in her brain, she had “a first shock”. When a neurosurgeon warned her, at the end of 2019, that she would have to operate within six weeks, “the sky fell on my head a second time”, says the fifty-year-old, who lives in Fontenay-aux- Roses (Hauts-de-Seine). It was the fault of Androcur, a progestin-only medication that had been prescribed to him six years earlier as an ordinary contraceptive pill. On the phone, the mother of two children lets a few tears flow. “I was very lucky to be very well supported by my husband, who was very afraid for my life,” she confides.
Like dozens of other victims, the telecoms engineer believes she was not sufficiently informed of the risks all these years and is now demanding accountability from the State. “It’s a public health scandal! », thunders the lawyer who represents them, Charles Joseph-Oudin. Two first requests were registered at the beginning of March at the Montreuil administrative court (Seine-Saint-Denis). Three others, including the one concerning Anne Le Beuz, must be released in the coming weeks. This legal aspect is a new stage in a vast series which combines very broad prescriptions, differences between professionals and health authorities accused of having been slow to react.
