The Cassation (2983) confirmed the dismissal, pronounced by the Gip of Milan on 4 September 2018, of the complaint for injuries and abuse of office presented by the parents of a child with autism, which according to the couple was caused by vaccinations mandatory. According to the Supreme Court, the "ministerial directives based on the findings of the most recent epidemiological studies”, which excluded the vaccine-autism link. Therefore, there is no crime.

Parents' complaints

The two parents had filed a complaint for injuries against unknown persons for the execution of the vaccination of the little girl. They then denounced the Milan Hospital Medical Commission for abuse of office, which initially, in February 2016, had accepted the request for compensation for damage to health, only to then revoke it a few months later, in October 2016, after "adapting to the indications from the Ministry of Health“, which on the basis of the most recent studies excluded the link between vaccines and autism.

"Cancellation in accordance with ministerial directives"

According to the Cassation, the Milan magistrate correctly filed the complaints "since the annulment in self-defense of the first provision had been adopted in compliance with ministerial directives, based on the results of the most recent epidemiological studies, therefore, in the context of an evaluation discretionary, of a technical nature, which cannot be reviewed in criminal proceedings". The complaint for injuries was also late.

What does the Supreme Court say?

Equally correctly, the investigating magistrate "considered that the evaluation basis, consisting of scientific data, and the alignment with the same during the review of the previous judgment expressed excluded the injustice of the damage and, even if we wanted to believe that there was a violation of the law, there was no any indication that could suggest that the alleged irregular conduct was inserted in a context of objective intention of 'abuse', consisting in intentionally wanting to cause unjust damage”.

The couple's appeals are unfounded

Thus the Court of Cassation, with its verdict 2983, declared the appeals of the parents "inadmissible due to manifest groundlessness", to whom it recalls that "in the absence of a crime it is useless to speak of the pertinence and relevance of the supplementary evidence in the face of a decree of archiving issued 'de plano' after the presentation of an opposition”. The parents were sentenced to pay a thousand euros to the Fines Fund, as usually happens when the appeals have no legal basis.

Note: The vaccine hoaxes originated with Andrew Wakefield, the now disbarred English doctor, who published a fake study in the Lancet in 1998 that claimed vaccines cause autism.
Later, other studies did not confirm the data and it was discovered that Wakefield had received £ 435,000 from the lawyers of some parents, who wanted compensation for their children's illness, attributing it precisely to the vaccine. It also turned out that the research was an attempt to discredit trivalent vaccines in favor of another system patented by Wakefield himself.

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