France's most controversial microbiologist is definitely not ready to fall into line. In mid-August, Didier Raoult called Brigitte Macron to tell him all the bad things he thought about the scientific council on Covid-19. A body responsible for advising the executive and of which the Marseille scientist officially belongs, although he no longer participates in its work.
For several months, Didier Raoult has criticized this college of researchers, led by Professor Jean-François Delfraissy, of being made up of personalities who are not specialists in the coronavirus and are linked, for some, to large pharmaceutical laboratories. “We cannot wage a war with consensual people,” he said in Paris Match. Consensus is Pétain. Insupportable. You can't decide that way. "
"She does not intervene"
Discreet pressure from the media professor on Emmanuel Macron, via his wife? At the Elysee, in any case, we minimize the scope of this call. "The exchange focused on the circulation of the virus," says the office of the head of state's wife. In her capacity as president of the Fondation des Hôpitaux de Paris-Hôpitaux de France, Brigitte Macron exchanges regularly with numerous health professionals, throughout the territory and in particular in the areas most affected. Did she convey to the president the criticisms of the Druid-haired researcher? "She does not intervene," assures her entourage.
It is a patient, treated in Marseille by Didier Raoult, who had put in relation, at the beginning of the epidemic, the "first lady" with the champion of hydroxychloroquine.