Indicted for her management of the Covid-19 crisis, the former Minister of Health kept a “logbook” where she recounts the start of the epidemic. The publication of extracts from this newspaper annoys many supporters of the head of state, even if some are more lenient.
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The world published on Tuesday October 25 extracts from a logbook kept by Agnès Buzyn during the Covid crisis. The former Minister of Health settles her accounts there with Emmanuel Macron and Edouard Philippe. And that did not please the executive at all. “I was made to look like an idiot who didn’t see anything, but it’s the opposite!” enrages Agnès Buzyn. who claims to have alerted Emmanuel Macron as of January 11, 2020, even before the appearance of the first cases, then to have been very insistent: “Everyone didn’t care” she said bluntly.
The supporters of the Head of State regret a trial a little too easy to do after the fact. “She spits in the soup, it’s indecent” gets carried away by a macronist, for whom Agnès Buzyn has “always been supported”. “She should thank Macron who even relocated her” annoyed a deputy in reference to his appointment as master adviser to the Court of Auditors since September 1.
Agnès Buzyn believes that Emmanuel Macron minimized, did not immediately realize the gravity of the situation, especially in China. The headlines at the time were punctuated by pension reform and strikes. “No one knew anything in advance” we remember in high places. It’s very simple: among those more or less close to the president whom I interviewed, none questioned the action, timing and decisions of Emmanuel Macron.
Hence a form of indulgence, also, with regard to Agnès Buzyn. Some regret a relentlessness, against “a woman crucified by public opinion, who has become a scapegoat” according to one of those who worked with her. Agnès Buzyn claims to have become the“public enemy number 1”. But this indulgence is also explained by this “judicialization of political decisions” which is very scary to all of Macronie. “For the slightest fact, you can find yourself in court” summarizes, sheepishly, a minister. To date, Agnès Buzyn is the only minister or ex-minister indicted for her management of the crisis.
Another painful memory: his departure from the government. “I should never have left” she believes. But Agnès Buzyn explains that she gave in to the insistence – almost harassment – of the President of the Republic himself for her to run for municipal elections in Paris. “Do you really think we put a gun in his back?” sweeps an elected official, engaged in the campaign. The episode is like a scar, a very traumatic episode, started by the Benjamin Griveaux affair. then turning into a fiasco.