“Circonspect” after the placement under assisted witness status of Edouard Philippe, an association of victims “confirmed on the need for a trial”

Julie Grasset says to herself “circumspect” and “surprised” after the placement under assisted witness status of former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, revealed on Saturday by franceinfo, in the investigation into his management of Covid-19. Guest of franceinfo on Sunday October 23, the president of the association of victims CœurVide19, who filed a complaint against the executive, does not understand this decision of the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) since it “discorrelated the action and decisions of the Minister of Health, herself under investigation, from those of the head of government”.

“It raises questions about the decision-making process during the first wave. It reinforces my point of view on the need for a trial in which the different parties can present the facts.”

Julie Grasset

at franceinfo

Julie Grasset takes the opportunity to respond to Renaissance MP Benjamin Haddad, who denounced Saturday on franceinfo “a disturbing precedent”. “We have precisely transmitted to the CJR incriminating elements which represent worrying precedents as to the way in which things were decided.”

“I chose, as the rule of law authorizes me, to seize the CJR empowered to investigate complaints against ministers”, explains Julie Grasset. The one who lost her father who died during the first wave of Covid-19 in March 2020, believes that “the health protocols deployed in an emergency such as immediate cremation, the fact of prohibiting families from going to see their loved ones and from making them funerals, have been overinterpreted”. “We must realize that we are faced with shortcomings, with faults which are to be characterized on the criminal level.”

The association CœurVide19, which denounces a “strategy of invisibilization of victims”is also fighting to fix the “impossible mourning” families. This does not only involve holding a trial before the CJR but also “by holding a tribute from the Nation for our parents who did not have a funeral and whose dignity was sacrificed by barbaric health protocols”. Julie Grasset also explains using justice as a “citizen” and “housewife”. “We are not immune to this type of pandemic resurgence a dayshe warns. If I unfortunately have to succumb to a virus, I hope our children don’t have to go through what we went through.”