She had remained silent since January 20 and the cancellation by the Court of Cassation of her indictment for endangering others in the Covid pandemic.
This Saturday morning, the former Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn reacted to this news.
“Justice has passed, it has canceled my indictment, it is a way for me to clear my honor and resume the course of my life”, she said on RMC, where she had come to talk about cancer prevention.
However, justice has not completely passed: admittedly, the Court of Cassation has ruled against the investigating commission of the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) which had indicted Agnès Buzyn for endangering life. of others, but "it remains implicated" without being "directly accused" of an offence.
The former president of the National Cancer Institute, professor of hematology, was automatically placed under the status of assisted witness.
The only body empowered to prosecute members of the government for crimes or misdemeanors committed in the exercise of their functions, the CJR is still working to say whether members of the government may have had some responsibility in the management of the coronavirus and its spread, and therefore in the assessment of the epidemic.
Last October, former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe was also placed under the status of assisted witness.
“I had a feeling of great loneliness”
Asked about her famous sentence in Le Monde which had caused so much debate - “Everyone didn't care.
People explained to me that this virus was a "flu" and that I was losing my nerves", she said in October 2022 in the evening daily, leaving access to the diary she had written at the time of the first signs of the epidemic, Agnès Buzyn explained this Saturday that her remarks had been "often misinterpreted".
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“It was interpreted as an attack on the government, which was not my object.
When I said
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it was the experts, she justified.
I had a feeling of great loneliness.
Awareness was late, including the WHO”.
And to add that “the intrusion of a penal risk in a return of experience makes the emergence of the truth more difficult.
This judicialization poses a certain risk to the collective ability to learn the lessons of a crisis”.
🗣️💬 @agnesbuzyn on his time at the Ministry of Health: "I have absolutely no bitterness. My commitment remains intact. It is important to dare to assert one's convictions. Bitterness is useless. This experience learned a lot."
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If she still receives death threats, which oblige her to permanent police protection, and if she had a bad experience of her departure from the Ministry of Health to replace Benjamin Griveaux in the municipal campaign of macronists for Paris, the doctor assures us not have no bitterness.
“My commitment remains intact, I think that today we must engage in public life, I have done so at different levels”.
Does she ever consider a return to politics?
“I will see what the future holds for me, it is important to dare to assert your convictions, this experience has taught me a lot, but never bitterness, it is useless”, she slips.