At the heart of a controversy over his promotion of hydroxychloroquine as a remedy for Covid-19, Professor Didier Raoult has just received significant support.
On the occasion of the entrepreneurs' forum which is held in Marseille, it is Nicolas Sarkozy who took up this Friday the defense of the researcher, who heads in this city the Mediterranean Infection Hospital-University Institute.
“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 don't understand why there is so much violence against him.
», Lamented the former head of state.
Words greeted by a few scattered applause.
Nicolas Sarkozy: "I don't understand why there is so much violence" against Professor Didier Raoult pic.twitter.com/xKEvqFz5P5
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On Thursday, the French-speaking Society of Infectious Pathology confirmed having seized in July the Ordre des médecins des Bouches-du-Rhône against Prof. Didier Raoult, whom it accuses of having promoted hydroxychloroquine "without qu “no data acquired from science is clearly established on this subject, and in violation of the recommendations of the health authorities”.
"Pseudo-specialists"
"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.
“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 President of the Republic.
LR president of the Paca region, Renaud Muselier, also stepped up Thursday to defend the Marseille researcher, assuring that he had done, according to him, "only respect the Hippocratic oath".
