The former Prime Minister was heard Tuesday by the three magistrates of the CJR investigation committee on the endangering offenses of the life of others and voluntary abstention to fight a sinister within the framework of the Health crisis.
Le Monde with AFP
Former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe was placed on Tuesday, October 18, under the status of witness assisted by magistrates of the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) at the exit of a hearing on the government management of The epidemic of COVID-19, announced on Saturday October 22 a source close to the file to the France-Presse (AFP) agency, confirming information from franceinfo .
The mayor of Le Havre and President of Horizons, who left close to the presidential majority, was heard on Tuesday by the three magistrates of the CJR investigation committee on the endangering offenses of the life of others and voluntary abstention to fight a claim.
The former Prime Minister (May 2017- July 2020), who disputes the offenses criticized for him, obviously convinced the judges since he was placed under the status of assisted witness, intermediary between that of indicted and that of a simple witness. It designates the status of the person implicated during a judicial investigation, but to whom the commission of an offense is not directly accused.
In this judicial information opened in July 2020, the former Minister of Health (May 2017-February 2020) Agnès Buzyn was indicted for endangering the life of others on September 10, 2021. She Also been placed under the status of witness assisted for voluntary abstention to fight a disaster.
Besides Ms. Buzyn and Mr. Philippe, the former Minister of Health Olivier Véran, now a spokesperson for the government, is targeted by this instruction on the government’s management of the COVID-19 epidemic led by The CJR, the only one empowered to continue and judge members of the government for crimes or crimes committed in the exercise of their functions. At this stage, Mr. Véran was not heard by the CJR.
The investigations had been launched after several complaints denouncing in particular the lack of protective equipment for caregivers and the population or errors on the need or not to wear masks. Since then, other complaints have been attached to the current judicial information.
In this case, several searches had been carried out in October 2020, notably at the homes and offices of MM. Véran and Philippe, Mrs. Buzyn and the former member of the Sibeth Ndiaye government. To date, according to public health figures France, the COVVI-19 epidemic has caused 155,000 dead in France.