INTERVIEW
As soon as the containment of the population began, the controversy arose: could the government have better foreseen the coronavirus crisis? This is what Agnès Buzyn implied in an interview with Le Monde on Tuesday. "On January 11, I sent a message to the president on the situation. On January 30, I warned Edouard Philippe that the elections could probably not be held," said the former health minister. "Let those who are in government and Emmanuel Macron know that one day or the other, they will have answers to bring to the questions that the French are asking," warned Marine Le Pen on Europe 1, Tuesday evening.
"Possible state scandal"
"When I left the ministry," assured Agnes Buzyn to the daily, "I was crying because I knew that the tsunami wave was ahead of us." For Marine Le Pen, "if these words are correct, they reveal a possible state scandal and will have to be subject to a severe evaluation at the end of the crisis," said the president of the National Rally.
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"We refused to close our borders, we did not take the measures to anticipate the requisition of the companies that make the masks (and) no serious decision was made for weeks and weeks", regrets Marine Le Pen, who says, however, that he doesn't want to argue. But if the words of Agnes Buzyn were proven, which the ex-minister does not deny, "what appeared to be a systematic delay in lighting would then be tinged with an extremely heavy political responsibility."
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