Covid-19 and "conspiracy": politicians castigate "the hallucinatory" documentary "Hold-Up"

Several political leaders of the majority condemned Thursday the "conspiracy propaganda" of the documentary "Hold-Up", which intends to question the "global manipulation company" surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic.

"It is not a docu, it is not journalism, it is a conspiratorial propaganda with a blockbuster budget. Shamefully supported by some wandering politicians", denounces the deputy president of the LREM deputies Coralie Dubost, on Twitter.

⚠️ Trap: “Hold Up” is not a docu, it is not journalism, it is conspiratorial propaganda with a blockbuster budget ⚠️ Shamefully supported by some wandering politicians.

Excellent thread to unwind https://t.co/Rs8UiZwUyK

- Coralie Dubost (@CoDubost) November 12, 2020

According to her colleague "walker" Laetitia Avia, the film takes again "fake news on fake news. Hallucinating. We could laugh about it if the situation were not so serious".

The Explanation of a Global Conspiracy

For his part, the Minister of Public Accounts Olivier Dussopt also retweets a series of messages deciphering this "delusional" documentary.

"Attention conspiratorial FakeNews", also warns the deputy and former secretary of state in charge of digital, Mounir Mahjoubi (LREM), who calls for the "resignation" of the deputy Martine Wonner (group Libertés et Territoires), one of the speakers of the film. 

"We receive multiple messages around the film Hold-Up. People who are in a real denial of reality, in a conspiracy movement and who seriously think that all that (the epidemic) was fabricated", testifies to the AFP the president of the Agir Ensemble group Olivier Becht, ally of the majority.

Funded by online jackpots and officially released on the internet on Wednesday, this 2:40 documentary brings together a galaxy of skeptics and experts of all kinds vigorously attacking the measures taken against the Covid-19 crisis, until the final explanation of 'a global conspiracy of which the pandemic would be the object.

In a column published on the FranceSoir site, its producer Christophe Cossé describes the Covid-19 as a "virus no more offensive than another seasonal Covid" and castigates an "authoritarian health ideology" which wants "to force a surveillance company and of submission ".

He attacks "an incredible and phenomenal global manipulation enterprise" and members of the Scientific Council, whom they consider "mostly close to pharmaceutical laboratories".

Philippe Douste-Blazy "dissociates himself" from it

One of the speakers of the film, the former LREM deputy Martine Wonner, had already been controversial on several occasions by estimating that the wearing of the mask "is strictly for nothing" or by asking in the hemicycle the difference between the Covid and "a huge flu".

There also appears the controversial infectious disease specialist Christian Perronne, already criticized by the Ministry of Health for "discrediting" health professionals.

Also interviewed, the former Minister of Health Philippe Douste-Blazy distanced himself on Twitter on Wednesday.

"I have not seen this film and if there is the slightest conspiracy, I want to say as clearly as possible that I dissociate myself from it. The health crisis we are going through is serious enough not to add to the confusion at the painful times we are living ".

Actress Sophie Marceau, for her part, caused controversy on social networks by posting the poster of the film on her Instagram account.