Europe 1 with AFP 12:38 p.m., July 13, 2022, modified at 12:39 p.m., July 13, 2022

Professor Pierre-Edouard Fournier, specialist in infectious diseases at the IHU Méditerranée Infection, will replace the controversial Didier Raoult at the head of this Marseille university hospital institute at the heart of numerous controversies for two years around the Covid-19, announced Wednesday the IHU.

Professor Pierre-Edouard Fournier, specialist in infectious diseases at the IHU Méditerranée Infection, will replace the controversial Didier Raoult at the head of this Marseille university hospital institute at the heart of numerous controversies for two years around the Covid-19, announced Wednesday the IHU.

Reservations from the unions 

Despite the reservations, expressed in particular by unions who doubted the ability of this internal candidacy to drive real change, the directors therefore validated the choice of a commission specially set up for this succession and chaired by the former boss of Renault, Louis Schweitzer.

The three representatives of the State abstained, we learned from a member of the Board wishing to remain anonymous.