The magistrates are considering the indictment of the former Prime Minister for “endangering the life of others” and “voluntary abstention to fight a disaster”.
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The judicial investigation into the management of the COVVI-19 crisis by the executive takes a spectacular turning point. According to information from the world, former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe was summoned by the three member judges of the Instruction Commission of the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR). Its hearing was set for Monday October 24. In their summons, the magistrates of the CJR – the only jurisdiction authorized to investigate the acts committed by ministers in the exercise of their functions – tell Mr. Philippe that they “envisage” his indictment for “endangering of the life of others “and” voluntary abstention to fight a claim “. The “disaster” in question left more than 155,000 dead in France.
If he is convincing during this first interrogation, Edouard Philippe, currently mayor of Le Havre, can hope to come out of his hearing with the much more enviable status of “assisted witness”, a kind of “halfway” between that of simple witness and that of indicted. The ex -Prime Minister of Emmanuel Macron will therefore play big on October 24 -if the initial convening date is maintained -, judicially, but also especially from the political point of view. Indeed, an indictment, despite the presumption of innocence attached to it, could permanently weaken the president of horizons, to whom presidential ambitions are lent …
For the first crime targeted – the “endangerment of the life of others” -, the three instructing magistrates criticize the former tenant of Matignon (from May 15, 2017 to July 3, 2020) for not having respected The doctrine decreed on May 16, 2013 by the General Secretariat of Defense and National Security (SGDSN), a service under the responsibility of the Prime Minister, who detailed the protection measures to be implemented “in favor of workers in the face of diseases highly pathogenic with respiratory transmission “.
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The same reasoning is already worth in Agnès Buzyn, Minister of Health from May 2017 to February 2020, to be prosecuted by the CJR since September 2021, for “endangering the life of others”. Like his former minister, Edouard Philippe is also implicated for the cataclysmic management of protective masks -surgical (intended for the general population) or FFP2 (reserved for health professionals) -, in particular with regard to non -renewal stocks. A largely documented bankruptcy. Thus, in May 2020, an investigation in the world had highlighted the incurse of the public authorities, guilty of having let in dizzying proportions the stocks of masks (there was only a hundred left in early 2020 of millions against 2.2 billion ten years earlier), until you destroy, in March 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 crisis, millions of masks still usable …
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