This Thursday, October 27, Agnès Buzyn, Minister of Solidarity and Health in France between 2017 and 2020 was the guest of "C à vous".
Indicted for
"endangering the lives of others"
, she came to explain herself in the France 5 talk.
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“It was suggested that I had done nothing and for the doctor that I am, it is unbearable”
she begins facing Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her columnists.
During a long interview, the former Minister came to give her truth to clear her honor.
In 2020, the Covid-19 crisis is hitting the world.
In a few weeks, France is confined.
Then followed the mask crisis, curfews and the closure of many businesses considered
“non-essential”
.
She assures him, she
"tried very quickly to warn about the coming crisis"
but in vain.
Text messages sent between January 11 and February 8, 2020 to the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron to express his concern to him are broadcast on the screen.
They won't get an answer.
How to explain this lack of consideration and especially of anticipation on the part of the government wonders Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine?
"There was a scientific council, there were opinions and obviously these opinions were discordant and obviously not in phase with mine"
replies his guest, almost fatalistic.
Since then, Agnès Buzyn says she has been subjected to threats and regular harassment, that she cannot
“walk alone in the street”
.
She adds, moved:
"for someone who gave his life to public service, to the public hospital, who dedicated his life to trying to save people... Yes, that's very hard"
.
'Everyone didn't care'
Faced with all these attacks suffered since 2020, Agnès Buzyn had the time to designate who, in her opinion, are the culprits of the mismanagement of the Covid-19 epidemic in France.
“I am not attacking the government, I am attacking the experts who have told nonsense on television sets and who are not indicted!
Who at the time when I was trying to alert, to mobilize the Europeans, the European Commission, there was no expert, you will not find an interview who said that it was serious.
We heard them say everything and its opposite on the TV sets
.
Firm in her remarks, the former minister concludes on the set of "C à vous":
"if I have to get angry, when I say 'everyone didn't care' I essentially get angry at the scientific community which did not do at that time some analysis of the risks they were taking
.