Re: France: Court Rules Frozen Couple Must Be Buried

From: Jacques Du Pasquier (jacques@dtext.com)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 16:19:03 MST


Things are confused tonight. The ruling apparently hasn't been
executed yet. Though the ruling implies it can be excuted any time,
Rémy Martinot's (the couple's son) lawyer is said to have appealed all
the same (not sure what it means if the decision is "executory"), and
aptly argued that (my translation) :

  on the law side, there is a real debate that we have started but
  that has been truncated by this urgent procedure. One shouldn't
  treat such a problem in urgency. I am surprised that the
  administration should be in such a hurry, while, for 18 years, she
  didn't dare to confront the problem [Dr Martinot's wife is frozen
  since 1984]

and

  my client had a right to a fundamental debate with intervention of
  medical experts and, why not, philosophers

I had a good contact today with Libération, a major daily newspaper
here, hopefully they will talk about it.

Jacques



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