Agnès Buzyn assures that she had warned the executive

After two years of silence, Agnès Buzyn drops the mask and settles her accounts. In an interview for the daily The world, Tuesday, October 25, the former Minister of Health defends herself and claims to have taken the threat of the Covid-19 epidemic seriously from the start. His warnings would have been ignored. “They made me look like an idiot who didn’t see anything, when it’s the other way around. I was by far the most alert minister in Europe […]. But everyone didn’t care. People explained to me that this virus was just a ‘flu’ and that I was losing my nerves“, she thunders.

His version of the facts is buttressed in a newspaper of 600 pages, explosive. The story begins on the eve of Christmas 2019, with mysterious cases of pneumonia in China, of which she chooses to alert Emmanuel Macron and the then Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, from January 11. “The information is not yet in the media, but it can go up“, she recalls. During the same month, the images of the inhabitants of Wuhan (China) in quarantine go around the world. Her fears are confirmed, but the minister is nevertheless reassuring in public. In private, she is would on the other hand be shown to be alarming, in particular with the President of the Republic.