INTERVIEW
"In my opinion, the agents of the town hall of Paris are not trained and prepared" for the coronavirus. This is in essence the serious accusation that launched Monday on Europe 1 Agnes Buzyn, former Minister of Health and candidate for mayor of Paris, against Anne Hidalgo. The teams of the current mayor of the capital responded within hours, accusing the LREM candidate of lies and producing letters demonstrating exchanges on the subject between Anne Hidalgo and ... Agnès Buzyn herself. "I find these words so irresponsible on the part of the former Minister of Health that my arms almost fall to me," reacted Anne Hidalgo on Tuesday on Europe 1.
The mayor of Paris then reported on the exchanges that took place between the City of Paris and the Ministry of Health. "The first exchange, was it necessary to cancel the Chinese New Year parade? We were told to do as we wanted, and in fact we decided with the associations to cancel," assured Anne Hidalgo.
Anne Hidalgo shows two letters
"I also wrote to the Minister of Health, Mrs. Buzyn at the time, at the end of January to ask her what recommendations regarding children who were going to come back from school holidays and who had spent stays in China and in regions affected by the epidemic, "continued the current mayor of Paris. "And she replied, moreover, then, still Minister of Health, that the proposal I made which was to ask parents to keep children away from school or day nursery for 14 days they had stayed in the impacted areas, that it was rather a good decision. "
In support of her demonstration, Anne Hidalgo brandished two letters. "I have two letters, the letter I wrote to her and the letter of her response, so things are absolutely clear," she said.