It is one of the best kept secrets and since his terrible fall in December 2013, no one really knows what physical and mental state he is in. Michael Schumacher at present. Victim of a terrible fall while he was hurtling down the slopes near Méribel (Savoie), he was quickly taken care of by the emergency services. Suffering from a head trauma with coma, he needed emergency neurosurgery and rescuers quickly took him to Grenoble hospital, where he remained for several months. The operation was carried out by doctors on site, but the Formula 1 star remained in a coma until June 16, 2014 and in the meantime the hospital was besieged by journalists anxious to find out more on the state of health of the German star.
Among the doctors present at his side at that time, we find a doctor well known to the French since for several years, he has been involved in politics. Indeed, at that time, Olivier Veran provides consultations at the Grenoble hospital. In an interview with Closer Today, the 42-year-old politician looks back on this very turbulent time and gives his analysis of the media frenzy that followed the accident. “It was so exaggerated. There is even a foreign journalist who disguised himself as a priest to enter his room”he says.
Olivier Véran made a strong decision in this story
An anecdote which can make you laugh as it is surprising, but which symbolizes the relentlessness of certain journalists to have some information on Michael Schumacher. Faced with all this media pressure, the current spokesperson for Emmanuel Macron’s government took a radical decision to remove himself from the pressure. “Seeing the extent of his hospitalization, I asked my neurology department not to communicate anything to me on his medical file”he concludes on this file which still continues today to make a lot of ink flow…
Find Olivier Véran’s interview in full in Closer on newsstands September 30, 2022.