AIX-EN-PROVENCE, MARSEILLE – A young woman has passed away 7 days after receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Sofia Benharira, a student at Valabre Gardanne Lycée (high school), got her shot on September 14th. She had several symptoms shortly afterward. The student suffered severe discomfort on September 20th while at school and she was taken to hospital. She died a day later as a result of thrombosis. Her family is now seeking answers for the sudden death of the healthy girl.

Sofia’s aunt and Godmother Sonia, spoke to VECU at her funeral today:

“We are grieving…. Sofia was full of life. She wanted to become a nurse… She was in her last year of school. Unfortunately, she left us. On Monday morning, while she was in school, she felt discomfort. The school called the fire department who rushed her to Aix-en-Provence Hospital. She had a heart attack and died at six in the morning on Tuesday.
We, the family, asked for an autopsy because a healthy 17-year-old girl just suddenly died like that. No…No, she was not sick, my Sofia. What the autopsy revealed today was an unexplained massive pulmonary embolism. We can’t say more about it. We do not know yet what happened. This is what the public prosecutor told us. So for now, we keep it at that but we will continue our research until we find the cause of this pulmonary embolism. That’s all I have to say. Also, parents need to be careful with their young children because it happened to us and it is real. It can happen to anyone. Parents, take care of your children. Pay attention, think. That’s all I have to say.”

The Association for Pediatric Health of Children in France, Collectif Réinfocovid IDF, made a statement on the death of the 17-year-old:

“We have alerted our networks of health professionals, parents’ associations, and lawyers. We are in a state of shock. Her name was Sofia…”

Family and friends paid their last respects at her funeral at Gardanne Church today:

The news comes shortly after the death of a 14-year-old schoolgirl in Italy who spent 26 days in a coma after her second Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.