French hearing opens in diabetes-diet drug scandal

<p><span>NANTERRE, France</span> (AP) — Lawyers for a French curative organisation suspected in a deaths of during slightest 500 people argued Monday that a hearing opposite their customer should be halted as dual apart cases should be rolled into one before a justice can proceed.</p>
<p>The hearing of <span>Servier</span> on charges of “aggravated deception” non-stop in <span>Nanterre</span>, west of Paris only as a identical box is being investigated in a French collateral over a diabetes drug Mediator.</p>
<p>The association is indicted of stealing that Mediator — also used for weight detriment — contained an amphetamine called benfluorex, that was taken off a marketplace in 2009 after being found to thicken heart valves.</p>
<p>Servier lawyers argued opposite holding a Nanterre trial, claiming that a laboratory could not be judged twice on a same grounds.</p>
<p>“Your justice can in no approac...