The Prime Minister's speech on Thursday is a staked word, very cautiously. Caution, one of the most recurrent words in his speech. Especially for the sake of education vis-à-vis the French, but there is another reason ...
Édouard Philippe fears more than anything that one day he will have to be brought to justice, and end up in a court, accused of having failed to protect the lives of French people against coronavirus. He has in mind the case of contaminated blood in the 90s, a health scandal that had pursued Laurent Fabius in the 90s, one of his predecessors in Matignon. We know that in the coming weeks or months, the Prime Minister will be heard by a commission of inquiry. He is not afraid of that, it is a democratic explanation. No, what he fears are criminal complaints against the government. Complaints from groups of families of the sick or who have lost a loved one and who are in the process of compiling files. Reasons which explain the very great caution of Edouard Philippe who wants to secure maximum deconfinement. He even speaks of reconfinement in case the epidemic starts to shoot up again. It is his assurance, proof of his good faith.