Anti-GMO activist professor Seralini wins again in court, finding Marc Fellous guilty of forgery and defamation

Anti-GMO activist professor Seralini wins again in court, finding Marc Fellous guilty of forgery and defamation
Sunday, October 09, 2016


(NaturalNews) On 22 September a judge in the Criminal Court of Paris found Marc Fellous guilty of forgery and the use of forgery in order to defame Prof Gilles-Eric Seralini and CRIIGEN, a research association which focuses on the risks of genetic engineering and pesticides and the development of alternatives.

(Article republished from GMWatch.org)

Marc Fellous is a GMO proponent who was formerly President of the Biomolecular Engineering Commission (CGB), which assessed the safety of GMOs in France for the ministries of agriculture and environment from 1998 to 2007. In 2016 he became president of the French Association for Plant Biotechnology, a lobby group that was set up to promote GM crops. [1]

Last November Fellous lost a libel case to Seralini. The court ruled that Fellous had defamed Seralini. [2]

During that court case, Fellous used or copied the signature of a scientist without his agreement ("forgery" and "use of forgery") to argue that Seralini and his co-researchers were wrong in their reassessment of Monsanto studies. The Seralini team's re-assessment reported finding signs of toxicity in the raw data from Monsanto's own rat feeding studies with GM maize. [3]

The new court ruling means that Fellous will be sentenced in a few months' time – probably in early 2017 – at a public correctional hearing. The use of forgery in a court case is a serious offence and may result in a jail sentence.

The ruling marks a second court victory this year for Prof Seralini, his research team, and CRIIGEN. On September 7 they won a libel suit in the Appeals Court against Marianne magazine and its journalist Jean-Claude Jaillette, who repeated the defamatory words of the American pro-tobacco and -GMO lobbyist Henry I. Miller. [3]

Read more at: GMWatch.org