Edouard Philippe, Olivier Véran, Agnès Buzyn… and now Jean Castex.
After filing a complaint against the first three, deeming their management of the Covid-19 epidemic calamitous, Me Fabrice Di Vizio attacks the new Prime Minister.
It is Jean Castex's turn to be the subject of a complaint, which must be filed this Thursday, September 17 in the morning before the Court of Justice of the Republic - the only body likely to judge sitting ministers.
Here again, the lawyer invokes article 223-7 of the Penal Code, that is to say “the voluntary abstention from taking or provoking the measures allowing to fight a disaster likely to create a danger for the safety of the people”.
Clearly, Jean Castex is accused of failing in his mission to fight the pandemic.
Filed at the start of the confinement by the collective of doctors C-19, the complaint against the former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, as well as the former Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn and his successor Olivier Véran gave rise to the opening of judicial information in early July.
"Minimalist, or so stupid" measures
But, basically, nothing has really changed since, according to the association Victims Coronavirus France, at the origin of this new legal offensive.
“What has been put in place since is not more coherent, it is the cacophony.
Either they hit too hard, or it's completely lax… ”, sighs Elisa (the first name has been changed), regretting the lack of clarity and guideline at the top of the State.
Active member of this association bringing together 200 patients and relatives of Covid-19 patients, the young woman, who wishes to remain anonymous to "not expose herself", denounces, in addition, a government discourse "making guilt and infantilizing".
"The Prime Minister holds an alarmist speech, but takes minimalist measures, or so stupid", tackles Me Di Vizio, an allusion to the obligation to wear the mask outdoors indiscriminately.
A measure deemed "unnecessary" and "too restrictive", and already subject to appeal on behalf of the association.
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“At the same time, it was not until July 18 and a decision by the Council of State for this to be the case in closed places!
The same goes for companies, where the obligation only dates from September 1… Common sense measures, in short.
We have all the data in hand and we act as if we did not have them ”, summarizes Me Di Vizio.
The "Buzyn syndrome"
Citing Italy as an example, which, hard hit, has taken drastic measures, the lawyer also evokes the fluctuation of controls at airports and the problem of tests, while there are currently dozens of daily deaths.
“The massive screening strategy has led to laboratory congestion, resulting in excessively long response times.
And we still refuse saliva tests, deemed unreliable, but yet practiced routinely in the United States, Great Britain and Italy ... "
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For Me Di Vizio, Jean Castex would have thus "prolonged the Buzyn syndrome by communicating without doing anything".
The complaint, which will first have to pass the filter of the petitions commission, could give rise to the hearing of Jean Castex during an investigation… and to the holding of a hypothetical trial.