The former Minister of Health does not take off. And points the finger at others responsible. Indicted for her management of the first weeks of the Covid-19 epidemic, Agnès Buzyn affirms that she alerted Emmanuel Macron and Edouard Philippe in January 2020, but that she “did not have the impression of being heard”, according to elements published Tuesday in The world.
“Not only had I seen, but warned. I was, by far in Europe, the most alert minister. But no one cared,” according to comments reported by The world who says he had access to a diary written by the ex-minister during the pandemic.
“I should never have left”
In an article published on Tuesday, the daily reports numerous text messages addressed to the Head of State and his former Prime Minister, the first on January 11, 2020, about the epidemic that appeared in China, which then only appeared ” not yet in the media” but who “can go up”, she writes.
Despite these elements, which now constitute a part of the investigation, “I did not have the impression of being heard”, adds Agnès Buzyn, who “did not manage to have an appointment” with the President of the Republic, until a telephone interview on February 8. Or a week before his departure from the ministry to replace Benjamin Griveaux at short notice in the race for mayor of Paris. “I should never have left”, she believes, adding that “we pushed (her) in the wrong place at the wrong time”.
“It’s going to be the berezina”
Until her crushing defeat in the second round, she continued to alert the executive. Hence this message, on February 29, to Emmanuel Macron: “We are wasting time on the epidemic (…) The country is not ready! “. Or this one, on March 10 to Edouard Philippe, to whom she enjoins “to stop everything, as in Italy, as quickly as possible”, predicting that “it will be the berezina in the hospitals”.
“I felt that I no longer weighed anything and that I spoke in a vacuum. I was no longer in business and I was made to feel it, ”she adds today in remarks to the World.
Source: 20minutes
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