“To attack Raoult is to attack France!
»Chanted Florian Philippot, the leader of the patriots at the head of one of the Parisian processions.
This Saturday, the name of Professor Didier Raoult was on the lips of many demonstrators, whether in Paris or Marseille, where the professor specializing in infectious diseases has been practicing for years.
In the capital, where 14,700 people gathered in four separate processions, the leader of the patriots had even "dedicated" the meeting to him.
“He disturbs the corrupt, the foolish and the pretentious.
But he serves the truth and the people of France.
We will powerfully recall it this Saturday!
“, He warned on Twitter.
And to reaffirm this support at the microphone this Saturday: “They shamefully want to oust him!
», Launched Florian Philippot to applause.
Between the French flags, panels with the writing “Touche pas à Raoult” were seen all along the procession.
AFP / Nicolas TUCAT NICOLAS TUCAT
Florian Philippot also invited Didier Raoult's lawyer, Fabrice Di Vizio.
He also expressed himself at Place Vaubau: "I am coming because you are coming!"
You are the heroes of this resistance.
"
In Marseille, the demonstrators gathered in front of the university hospital institute in infectious diseases headed by Didier Raoult.
Singing La Marseillaise, opponents of the sanitary passes chanted “Raoult!
Raoult!
Raoult!
»In front of the Marseille IHU.
They wanted to give their support to the professor in the process of not being renewed at the head of the institute.
A crowd of French people chanting a name, outside political meetings of the presidential campaign.
#Raoult will continue to make people jealous.
#TouchePasARaoult https://t.co/K2FFOPvIM3
- Guillaume Protsenko (@ GuillaumeProts1) August 21, 2021
The director general of Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille had declared that he did not wish to renew the 69-year-old infectious disease specialist at the head of the IHU. He confirmed Thursday to AFP the will of the AP-HM to "turn the page" of Didier Raoult, and to want to find a successor after his retirement at the end of August.
