The death of the Nobel laureate
Luc Montagnier
is still a mystery .
After the French site France Soir, the French professor, Didier Raoult, also announces the death of the virologist Luc Montagnier, Nobel Prize for medicine in 2008, who recently had embraced no-vax positions.
"Luc Montagnier is dead. We lose a man whose originality, independence and RNA discoveries have allowed the creation of the laboratory that isolated and identified the AIDS virus": writes the controversial professor of the AIDS on his Twitter profile. Marseille hospital, Didier Raoult, which in the early days of the pandemic became very popular for its alternative recipes in the treatment of the hydroxychloroquine-based coronavirus.
These discoveries, Raoult continues, earned Montagnier "the glory, the Nobel Prize as well as the unprecedented hostility of his colleagues. The attention paid to his latest hypotheses was disproportionate," continues Raoult.
Messages of condolence are multiplying on social media, but so far no official source or other French and international media have confirmed the death of the well-known virologist, who according to France Soir - an information site considered controversial in France - would have died on Tuesday 8 February "at the hospital. of Neuilly-sur-Seine ".
Yesterday, the French website France Soir announced the death of the French virologist Luc Montagnier, Nobel Prize in medicine in 2008, who had recently embraced no-vax positions.
But the news has not found other confirmations at the moment.
"At the age of 89 (August 18, 1932 - February 8, 2022), Professor Luc Montagnier passed away at the American hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Doctor Gérard Guillaume, one of his most faithful collaborators, confided in us that he left in peace, surrounded by his children ", reads the controversial France Soir.
Messages of condolence are multiplying on social media, but so far no official source or other French and international media have confirmed the death of the virologist.