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Agnès Buzyn, who held the Health portfolio in France between 2017 and 2020, was charged with “putting the lives of third parties at risk” due to her management of the Covid-19 crisis, reported today the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR), in charge of judging those who have held government positions.
Buzyn, 58, is the first front-line policymaker to be indicted within the vast open investigation for the management of the French Executive during the coronavirus crisis and has been accused of not having done enough at the head of the Ministry of Health to stop the pandemic when it had already broken out in China.
The hematologist, who at the beginning of 2021 left her act as a councilor in the 17th district of Paris to work at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, He was in charge of Health until February 2020, at the beginning of the health crisis due to the pandemic.
The politician had resigned from the ministry to run for mayor of Paris under the acronym of The Republic On The Move (LREM) of the French president, Emmanuel Macron. Buzyn assumed that unsuccessful candidacy by the resignation of the first candidate, Benjamin Griveaux, who withdrew due to the dissemination of a video with sexual content.
The investigation that resulted in Buzyn’s indictment led to media records of members of the current and former French Government, including former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, at the end of 2020.
It is a question of determining whether there was abandonment of functions of those responsible for managing the crisis for refraining from taking measures to face the disaster of the pandemic, a crime that is punishable by up to two years in jail and 30,000 euros a lot.
Since the start of the Covid crisis in early 2020, 115,362 people have died in France and almost 6.9 million have been infected.
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