The case took on such a dimension that several African media personalities, like the former soccer star Didier Drogba, were openly moved. The researcher and the doctor accused of polemical remarks made on LCI on Wednesday apologized in turn this Friday. Threatened with death, the second filed a complaint.
In this sequence, Jean-Paul Mira, head of intensive medicine and intensive care at Cochin hospital, questions Camille Locht, research director at Inserm in Lille, about the advisability of testing a vaccine against Covid-19 in Africa, "where there are no masks, no treatment, no resuscitation". "You are right," replied the researcher.
After criticizing a "truncated video" and "misinterpretations on social networks", Inserm said Friday evening that "the conditions in which this interview was conducted did not allow (Camille Locht) to react correctly " "He apologizes and wishes to clarify that he made no racist remarks," says the institute.
"Most sincere apologies"
In a press release from the AP-HP, Jean-Paul Mira also presents his "sincere apologies" to "those who were struck, shocked, who felt insulted by words that I made awkwardly. on LCI this week. "
“Since yesterday, (the doctor) and his family have suffered repeated and very worrying death threats. He was forced to file a complaint "for" death threats "on nursing staff and" malicious telephone calls ", indicate his lawyers, Me Gabriel Dumenil and Marc Bailly.
For its part, the AP-HP "takes note of these regrets and condemns any position which, rightly or wrongly, could be interpreted as pejorative vis-à-vis African countries".
