Former President Nicolas Sarkozy defended Professor Didier Raoult on Friday, September 4 at an entrepreneurs' forum in Marseille.
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Each crisis, we must find scapegoats.
It is a French disease.
The adversary is the Covid, it is not this or that doctor and I am thinking in particular of Professor Raoult.
I do not understand why there is so much violence against him
, ”said the former head of state, according to comments broadcast on BFMTV.
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He is a man of great quality who has done his best to treat his patients as well as possible, who has no doubt made mistakes as we all do, me the first,
" conceded Nicolas Sarkozy.
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But I observe that in times of crisis, there are pseudo-specialists who rush in and speak badly about someone.
It takes a culprit and this is it.
It seemed out of place to me.
I have no jurisdiction to say who is right and who is wrong.
In any case, that was not the subject.
Everyone did as they could, and he was the first,
”insisted the former head of state.
In July, the French-speaking Society of Infectious Pathology seized the Order of Physicians of Bouches-du-Rhône against Professor Didier Raoult, whom it accuses in particular of having unduly promoted hydroxychloroquine.
Asked Thursday, the entourage of Professor Raoult assured that he had never received any notification of this complaint.