Jeantet Law Firm: “With the Covid-19, criminal offences will be difficult to qualify”

 

While 25 outbreaks of contamination have been recorded since the start of deconfinement, including two in slaughterhouses, the question of the criminal responsibility of the leaders is again at the forefront. The point with Jacques-Henry de Bourmont and Hortense Béthune, lawyers at the Jeantet law firm.

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