Gilles-William Goldnadel is a lawyer and essayist. Each week, he deciphers the news for FigaroVox. His latest book
Neuroses media.
The world has become a mob
has appeared at Plon.
I am a lawyer and not a prosecutor.
I live in a country where critical thinking is usually sharp.
On this point I have criticized the excess.
Regarding this virus which rots our lives, in these same columns, I deplored the criminal proceedings initiated against ministerial staff, whose incompetence was no longer to be proven.
I saw in it a further cause for astonishment.
However, even if I thought I was immune to the hazardous statements of a president whose incontestable intelligence knows unpredictable eclipses, I admit that that of Thursday concerning its computation of 66 million French prosecutors triggered in me an epidermal phenomenon. quite stinging.
I maintain, well in reverse, that when it comes to the crowned virus, this rebellious Frenchman, this refractory Gallic - to use another memorable statement from his young tribal chief - shows in viral matters, including his usually unmerciful media, with a patience, a moderation and a phlegm that astonish and even dismay me.
My requisitions only intend to relate to the sudden discovery of national borders and the defeat in open vaccination campaign.
Because in the circumstances, the lawyer by profession will become a prosecutor by obligation.
Out of pity, let us put aside the past;
let's drop the masks, let's forget the comic statements of a spokesperson who professed lies, let's destroy the tests, let's no longer follow the untraceable trace.
My requisitions only intend to relate to the two most recent grievances which are the sudden discovery of national borders and the defeat in open vaccination campaign.
Touching on the border, it certainly does not surprise me that a large part of the French press has shown itself to be a good girl from multiculturalist France, she who enthusiastically participated in the ideology of prophylactic sans-frontierism.
The border question, the narrow-minded ideology of detesting the protective landmark of the nation-state will have constituted during the year 2020 my main source of perplexed reflection.
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From the start of the epidemic crisis, I intended to take a date: "The ideological rejection of borders can no longer last", I wrote on Figarovox on March 16, 2020.
The hat of the article makes a profession of faith:
“The government has shown irresponsibility in ruling out the use of national borders in the face of the spread of the pandemic. This measure, however necessary, is hampered by a Western unconscious which has lasted too long ”.
I will be forgiven for quoting the lawyer for the border, but the prosecutor who has become felt the need to draw up his indictment:
“When at the start of the crisis in China, various voices, from Éric Ciotti to Marine Le Pen through Nicolas Dupont-Aignan made themselves heard to demand prophylactic measures through the establishment of reinforced control blocking measures at national air and land borders, immediately, the agreed thought began to laugh yellow or even to roar red.
The roars accused these proposals of opportunists or even populists.
The laughter emerged from the caustic mothballs of the Chernobyl cloud.
These morons of the extreme right, they said, these stupid manufacturers of a new phantasmal Maginot line did not know then that one does not stop a virus with a customs officer? "
The ideology without borders was not the preserve of only progressive politicians.
It is a great specialty of leftist media ideology to reproach the adversary for cynically instrumentalizing a problem or "playing on fantasized fears"
It was therefore in this ideological context, sure of her good moral and intellectual rights, that a former Minister of Health, who had become a candidate in the municipal elections by masquerade, seriously explained that there was no question of even taking the temperature of Chinese tourists who disembarked en masse in a country still spared
"because some could have taken Doliprane"
...
Let us be fair, the ideology without borders was not the prerogative of the only progressive political personnel: when during televised debates, the prosecutor that I have become dared to be the lawyer, sacrificing all aestheticism, of the border, he did not did not find a single doctor on a tray who gave him a hand.
Few brought him, it is true, the contradiction.
Some smiled indulgently.
The others looked at their shoes.
Defending the border was a bad way.
We would rather be wrong with Macron than with Le Pen to be right.
And now with a variant, everything varies.
Overnight, the president discovers that if a virus has no borders, its carrier has a foreign passport.
That there are limits to hospitality.
Suddenly another taboo crumbles: even within Europe, the borders of the nation-state are good.
Too bad for the expression: you no longer enter France without showing a white leg.
My indictment is flawed: we will never know the cost in lives of the ransom paid to ideology.
We know that the countries which have taken over, without being spared, have fared much better.
So, should we not have closed more quickly to a Britain with a worrying variant?
One thing is certain, the death rate from the virus in France is among the highest in the world.
We are in the top ten.
Only Belgium, the UK, Italy and Spain can sadly boast of being worse than it.
It is on par with the United States, whose
Le Monde
explained that their hated ex-president was responsible for
"the slaughter".
Still concerning the USA, it will be noted that two states whose management of the epidemic fell to the Democrats (New York and California) are devastated.
We will draw this conclusion: the progressive French press is more of a prosecutor beyond the hostile ocean than inside a country which until then was open.
The comparison made with the other countries shows a defeat in the open countryside worthy of the Seventh Company.
I come to vaccination.
And I say that far from being a prosecutor, the refractory Gaul is too good.
The French government had presented vaccination as the port of salvation to be reached urgently.
Those who doubted were to hang from the first lamppost.
Both their conspiracy and their lack of civility could spoil the speedy scientific miracle to come.
The protective measures to endure would soon be bad memories.
We know that it is difficult to consider each other but easy to compare.
And the comparison made with the other countries shows a defeat in the open countryside worthy of the Seventh Company.
Let's not even talk about Israel, which has already vaccinated 40% of its population and is now caring for its less exposed adolescents.
Let us evoke the United Kingdom which has vaccinated more than 8.50% and 6 million of its citizens or the United States, Spain, Italy or Germany which are in front of a France whose Prime Minister has the audacity to praise the feat of reaching his first million ...
The
Chained Duck
this week explained that the doses are sleeping peacefully in refrigerators.
The terrible reality is well explained by Agnès Verdier-Molinié in
Le Figaro-Magazine
this week, we bump into the bloated ultra-centralized administration:
“Germany has deployed mobile centers to tour its retirement homes. In addition, mass vaccination, on a voluntary basis, has been set up in Israel with centers open 24 hours a day in order to achieve an efficient level of collective immunity as quickly as possible. We are very far from it. "
How to accept, without demanding severely, that France had recourse to the services of the American cabinet Mc Kinsey in mid-December for a vaccination campaign supposed to start at the end of December?
As Agnès Verdier-Molinié always questions:
"We have a higher number of agents at the Ministry of Health (11,000) than all comparable countries and we are unable to manage the logistics internally?"
The President of the Republic believed he had to reproach his 66 million prosecutors when his Minister of Health found a way to declare to the Senate public channel:
"even with the best organization and all the supplies, we could not have vaccinated all vulnerable audiences by summer.
This is why we are asking for the continuation of sanitary measures until the fall ”
It will take a good lawyer to sell the confinement that is coming.