INTERVIEW
A government lie for a good cause? On Wednesday in Media Culture , the presenter and doctor Marina Carrère d'Encausse in any case qualified as "a lie" what could have been said at the start of the coronavirus epidemic in relation to the usefulness of masks for the population. For her, this was said "knowingly, but because there were not so many other solutions. And it was for a good cause since" it was for the nursing staff, to protect the population and the nursing staff ". Arlette Chabot, journalist and presenter of a special program on LCI from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., formerly with Europe 1, reacts to his remarks, always at the microphone of Philippe Vandel.
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"The government lacked transparency"
"For me, this crisis is first of all the mask crisis, it is an obsession for everyone, reacts the journalist. It is a protection, and as there is a lot of anxiety, the French want These masks. That we reserved them for the medical personnel first, it is good. After, it must be said that the government lacked transparency. Instead of saying "there are none", they explained to us that that was useless. Which, obviously, is false. "
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"We are in the crisis today. Tomorrow, when we emerge from it, there will be parliamentary commissions of inquiry. We will know who has not kept the stocks of masks provided for by Roselyne Bachelot's law, we will know if the government lacked reactions and delayed ordering these famous masks. "
"I think the government has understood that it made a mistake by not being transparent enough, by saying 'we don't have any', and the little we have we will give to those who need it the most. "Today, with this pressure, these repeated interrogations, we saw that he had changed his strategy, he is a little more in transparency." According to his interpretation, the change took place at the press conference of Prime Minister Edouard Philippe last Saturday.
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"You have to answer all the questions, say everything," says the journalist, while sometimes deploring an overly anxiety-provoking way of presenting the information.