Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, in Evreux.

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NICOLAS MESSYASZ / SIPA

The Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, admitted before the Senate commission of inquiry on the management of the Covid-19 pandemic in France that she had lied by saying, six months ago, that the French soldiers repatriated from Wuhan in the Oise on January 31 had been tested.

This was not the case, and this in the face of a commission of inquiry before which testimony is taken under oath.

During her hearing before the Senate commission of inquiry into the Covid-19, the Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly admits being wrong in asserting that the soldiers returning from a mission in Wuhan, had been tested pic.twitter. com / MkMvSFO2Lw

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"I swore to tell the whole truth and therefore I must tell you that I said something incorrect on March 4 to France 2", explained the minister to the Senate.

“They were tested, they did not carry the virus,” she said at the time.

If this "inaccuracy" is controversial, it is because these soldiers returned to the Oise, in Creil, on January 31.

However, a few weeks later, the first French cluster of the coronavirus was fixed at Crépy-en-Valois, 30 km away, notes France Info.

"The dogma, at that time, was not to test everyone but to test symptomatic patients," explained Maryline Gygax Généro, the director of the military health service, who was also auditioned alongside the minister.

France Info nevertheless specifies that the investigation of patient 0 of the epidemic in the Oise arrived in the department in early January, even before the return of the military from Wuhan.

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