They will not spend their holidays together, as the late Thierry Roland said in his time. The story has no connection with football, even though it takes place in Marseille. Magali Carcopino-Tusoli, the daughter of Didier Raoult, has a hard tooth against the famous professor, in an interview published in L'Express this Sunday. The one who no longer bears the name of her father has just been rejected in a procedure against one of Didier Raoult's very close collaborators, whom she accused of defamation against herself and her husband.
Magali Carcopino-Tusoli, a specialist in vascular medicine at the Sainte-Marguerite Hospital in Marseille (AP-HM), who has been cold with the professor for more than ten years, had criticized the IHUm's studies on hydroxychloroquine, the treatment promoted by her father during the Covid-19 crisis. She was then the target of criticism and violent attacks from a Twitter account called "The Professional". She and her husband suspect Eric Chabrière, the faithful right-hand man in charge of defending the IHUm on social networks, of being behind these attacks, according to the weekly. Rejected, she will appeal the court decision.
"We have provided evidence, provided by Twitter, that the phone number associated with this account is the same as Mr. Chabrière's. His lawyer argued that this number is public and that anyone can use it. The judge considered that a doubt persisted and that it should benefit the accused, hence the acquittal, "explains the complainant in this interview.
"He never put up with contradiction"
In this long interview, the doctor also sends her father back to the father at the terminus of the pretentious. "I don't hate Professor Raoult. We haven't spoken to each other for more than ten years, and today I feel sorry for him. He dreamed of being a Nobel Prize winner, he became the leader of conspiracy theorists and antivax," she said, while denying any particular acrimony towards the Phocaean scientific figure. "I think that many people do not know that it is possible not to have a purely binary reasoning - love or hate - and that we can think and criticize other than with hateful bias," explains the one who quickly doubted the effects of the product advocated by Didier Raoult.
"He never put up with contradiction. It's impossible to survive with him if you don't agree on everything, she says. This behavior caused him to isolate himself, to cut himself off from criticism and to lock himself inside a sphere of worship."
She also explains that her emancipation from the family circle earned her the opprobrium of a father who wanted to be omnipotent. Above all, it recalls his responsibilities as a scientist. "My work at the University Hospital Center (CHU) also involves a public service mission - which I take very seriously - which consists in particular in not letting medical fake news pass, not tolerating people exercising responsibilities in care structures saying enormities." A new stone in his father's garden, in turmoil for several months.