Original article (in Bosnian) was published on 9/4/2025; Author: Sehija Kamenica
The ruling of the European Court of Justice, which rejected the request of an Italian doctor to withdraw the approvals for COVID-19 vaccines, was manipulatively interpreted as confirmation that doctors are criminally liable for the alleged consequences of vaccination.
On March 2, 2025, a claim published on Facebook stated that the European Court of Justice had issued a ruling implying that healthcare workers who administered COVID-19 vaccinations or advised patients to get vaccinated are responsible for the alleged consequences of vaccination.
European Court of Justice – Doctors will be solely responsible for the consequences of COVID injections
According to the ruling of the European Court of Justice, all healthcare professionals who urged or vaccinated you against COVID bear civil and criminal liability.
These claims were also shared on other Facebook profiles (1, 2), and some web portals published them as well. The web portal Nulta Tacka, published a text on February 9, 2025, claiming that doctors who administered vaccinations could be criminally prosecuted for attempted murder and could bear both criminal and civil liability. This was “explained” by saying that doctors had the choice of whether or not to administer COVID-19 vaccines. It was stated that doctors who refused to recommend vaccines acted correctly, while those who administered the vaccines assumed criminal liability. The same claim was published by the web portal IN4S.
EU Court ruled: Doctors who administered mRNA ‘vaccines’ can be criminally prosecuted for “attempted murder”.
The European Court of Justice made a decision that healthcare workers who forced or persuaded people to take mRNA ‘vaccines’ can be criminally prosecuted.
In the case of Professor Frajese before the European Court of Justice, a shocking outcome occurred. The court determined that administering experimental mRNA ‘vaccines’ required a medical prescription. Doctors had the freedom to decide whether to use them or not, and they could also advise patients to avoid them.
This decision opens the possibility for civil and criminal liability for doctors who unreservedly recommended and administered the ‘vaccines’, ignoring potential risks.
The web portals Hrvatski Fokus and Istinom protiv lazi also published articles claiming that doctors are solely responsible for the alleged consequences of COVID-19 vaccination.
What are the Facts?
Claims that the European Court of Justice issued a ruling stating that doctors are criminally or “civilly” liable for administering COVID-19 vaccines arise from a manipulative interpretation of the court’s decision. These claims were also analyzed by Raskrinkavanje from Montenegro.
The ruling in question was issued on January 30, 2025, in the case Giovanni Frajese vs. European Commission. Italian doctor Giovanni Frajese filed a lawsuit against the European Commission challenging the decisions that unconditionally approved mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 – namely, Spikevax (Moderna) and Comirnaty (Pfizer/BioNTech). These decisions were made in October 2022 and marked a transition from conditional approvals issued during the height of the pandemic, as explained in an article on the website Health Management.
Frajese sought to overturn these decisions because he believed the vaccines had not been sufficiently tested and were unsafe. He argued that these decisions made the vaccines widely available and, in his view, imposed an obligation on doctors like himself to assess their safety, which allegedly exposed him and other doctors to the risk of liability for severe side effects from vaccination.
The ruling by the European Court of Justice was made in an appeal and upheld the General Court of the European Union’s 2023 decision to dismiss Frajese’s lawsuit due to a lack of legal standing. According to Article 263 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, individuals may challenge an EU act that does not directly address them only if it affects them directly and individually, or in the case of a regulatory act, if it affects them directly without requiring implementation measures at the national level.
The court found that the approval decisions did not oblige doctors to prescribe or administer these vaccines. Any potential medical liability for side effects could only arise from individual medical decisions, not from the vaccine approval decisions themselves, as noted in the Health Management article.
In other words, doctors are not responsible for determining vaccine safety and are not liable for potential side effects. They can only be held accountable for consequences arising from their treatment of individual patients.
Following Frajese’s appeal of the General Court’s decision, the European Court of Justice confirmed the ruling in January 2025.
According to the General Court’s ruling, the vaccine approval decisions do not impose an obligation on healthcare workers to carry out vaccinations. Based on their professional judgment, they may decide not to recommend the vaccine if it is in the patient’s best interest – for example, if there is a medical reason to avoid vaccination.
The European Court of Justice’s January 2025 ruling (translated into Croatian, paragraph 32–36), states the following:
The General Court, in paragraph 24 of the contested order, clearly explained the absence of binding legal effects for doctors administering vaccinations, stating that “none of the provisions of the [contested] decisions or their annexes assigns doctors who are willing to administer the disputed vaccines any responsibility or even obligation to verify their safety and effectiveness”, adding that “the verification of the safety and effectiveness of medicines is carried out by the EMA, whose opinion formed the basis for the [contested] decisions in this case”.
Therefore, responsibility for verifying the safety and efficacy of vaccines in the European Union lies with regulatory bodies – in this case, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) – and not with doctors who administer the vaccines. The ruling does not state that doctors are responsible for vaccine side effects – on the contrary, it clearly states that doctors do not bear such responsibility. The only responsibility doctors may have stems from individual patient treatment and is unrelated to the side effects of the vaccination itself.
The approved mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have undergone numerous studies and are considered safe. On the website of the European Medicines Agency, which issued the approvals in the EU, there are questions and answers about the safety of these vaccines, emphasizing the importance of seeking reliable sources of vaccine information.
Therefore, the original claim that the European Court of Justice ruled that doctors are liable for the side effects of COVID-19 vaccination is rated as fake news. Other posts repeating this claim are rated as the distribution of fake news. The claim that the court decided doctors who administered vaccinations can be criminally or “civilly” prosecuted is rated as fact manipulation.
