The former Prime Minister admitted that “everything” had not been “well done”, adding however that “no country [had] everything well”. “My goal is to ensure that all those who have been placed under my authority are laundered,” he said.
Le Monde with AFP
Former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, placed under the status of witness assisted in the file relating to the management by the government of the COVVI-19 epidemic, assured, Wednesday, November 2, on France 2 , that” there was] no ‘criminal breaks “for him and his ministers in this file.
“Neither for Agnès Buzyn, nor for Olivier Véran, nor for me, nor for any of the employees who worked with us, there are criminal offenses, and that’s what I want to demonstrate “Explained the former head of government, who in October escaped an indictment before the Court of Justice of the Republic.
If he recognized that “everything” had not been “well done”, “no country has done everything,” he said. “My goal is to ensure that all those who have been placed under my authority – the members of my government, the collaborators of my cabinet and all those who, in the administration, made during this crisis their Better-are laundered with the accusations that are brought against them, “he insisted.
🔴🗣 “Agnès Buzyn took this COVVI-19 crisis very seriously. I absolutely did not neglect her warnings.… https://t.co/mnvnjrkzsj
“support” for the former Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn
He also more specifically expressed his “support” to his former Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn, under investigation in this file, a decision according to him “very unfair”. M Me Buzyn “took this crisis very seriously from the start and she is right when she says that she probably saw before many people which was likely to happen,” -I estimated.
But he specifies: “When I was Prime Minister and she was Minister, she knows it very well, every time she mentioned a subject, a decision to make, I implemented her . Each time. “The former Minister of Health says, however, that she had alerted in January 2020 Emmanuel Macron and Edouard Philippe, but that she had” not] the impression of being heard “, According to the newspaper that she wrote concerning the pandemic and to which Le Monde had access.
His health successor, Olivier Véran, now a government spokesperson, is also targeted by this instruction, but he has not yet been heard. If he is not under investigation later, Edouard Philippe will not be referred before the formation of judgment of the CJR, the only jurisdiction authorized to continue and judge members of the government for crimes or crimes committed in the exercise of their functions.