LREM deputy for Hérault Coralie Dubost has just experienced an assault: the 38-year-old politician was attacked by three or four men while she was with her companion leaving a Parisian restaurant in the 7th arrondissement on October 19, 2021. The criminals assaulted their victims to steal a bag, a Rolex watch and personal effects. The damage would amount to several tens of thousands of euros. A nightmare evening which is now the subject of an investigation entrusted to the 3rd district of the Paris judicial police (DPJ) for “theft with violence in a meeting”. After this traumatic incident, she can count on the moral support of her colleagues at the Hemicycle as well as those of the government, including in particular Olivier Véran, his ex-companion.
Indeed, Coralie Dubost and the Minister of Health Olivier Véran lived a love affair for three years, until spring 2021. It all started in 2018 when the Asylum and Immigration law was studied, their eyes met. ‘Assembly. Very discreet, they do not appear in public together, except for professional reasons such as during a trip to La Grande-Motte in August 2020. “Between Olivier and me, things took a long time, she confides. We were colleagues, then friends, before love at first sight“, she had modestly declared to Paris Match a little over a year ago.
However, their romance would not have stood up to the pressure from the health crisis. Father of two children born from his marriage to Camille Lesne, an obstetrician gynecologist from whom he divorced in 2018, the 41-year-old minister is overwhelmed by the mass of work in a context never seen before. Devoting the maximum time he has left outside his work to his offspring, he would have made the decision, according to The Obs, to put an end to his romance with his colleague from La République en Marche.
On the day of the assault on his former partner Coralie Dubost, Olivier Véran was traveling to Dijon as part of the Ségur de la Santé alongside Prime Minister Jean Castex and Brigitte Bourguignon, Minister Delegate in charge of Autonomy. A visit that is part of a tour of France to detail in the regions the investments in hospitals and nursing homes, as they were presented during the Ségur de la Santé. Work, the Minister of Health does not lack with the number of cases of Covid-19 detected which starts again on the rise, more 9.1% over a week on the whole of the territory.