Historic ruling against mandatory vaccination by Italian court

It is mainly in the United States, Canada and India that we can hope for court decisions against measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic, partly because it is much easier to file class action lawsuits in North America than in the rest of the world. In this context, a recent ruling in Italy is extremely encouraging.

On July 6, 2022, the Court of Florence approved a ruling annulling the lawsuit brought by the Tuscan Association of Psychologists against one of its members on the grounds that "the suspension of professional practice risks jeopardizing fundamental individual rights such as the right to a livelihood and the right to work".

The judge concluded that the female psychologist does not need to be vaccinated to carry out her work, stating that the vaccine does not prevent infection and transmission. The judge reached this conclusion based on data published by the Ministry of Health, AIFA (the Italian Medicines Agency) and SSN (the Italian Health Authority). Therefore, under Italian law, there can be no obligation to vaccinate.

The judge also points out that, according to official statistics, these substances cause serious side effects, which makes it even less legitimate to force someone to be vaccinated.

The judge explained that vaccination is possible if there is informed consent, pointing out that this was lacking for the Covid vaccine because the ingredients and mechanisms of these substances are unknown due to industrial and alleged military secrecy.

With this historic court ruling, "the risk to the human genome is now legally established," said Renate Holzeisen, an Italian lawyer who works to defend human rights, in an interview with an Italian radio station.