Overview
- Twelve members of Ultime Liberté, aged 75 to 89, await a verdict for actions taken between August 2018 and November 2020.
- They are charged with illicit importation and trafficking of pentobarbital, a banned lethal barbiturate, rather than with incitement or assistance to suicide.
- The public prosecutor asked for sentences of up to 18 months’ imprisonment, fully suspended, and no fines.
- During the September–October 2025 hearings, witnesses described clandestine family-assisted deaths, including a priest who recounted helping his terminally ill father.
- A separate bill from deputy Olivier Falorni that would create a legal right to aid to die passed the National Assembly on first reading and is scheduled for Senate debate at the end of January.