Paris (AFP)
Five complaints against members of the government targeting their management of the Covid-19 epidemic have been received by the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR), we learned on Wednesday from a judicial source.
These complaints, filed either by non-sick individuals or by associations, target the Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and either the former Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn, or his successor currently in office Olivier Véran.
The CJR is the only body empowered in France to judge acts committed by members of the government in the exercise of their functions.
The complainants accuse these members of the government, as the case may be, of endangering the lives of others, manslaughter, failure to assist persons in danger or of having failed to take timely action to contain the epidemic, according to the judicial source.
Among the complaints is however not that of three doctors, representatives of a group of caregivers, which had been announced Thursday. According to the judicial source, it has still not reached the complaints commission of the CJR.
The requests committee of the CJR must now rule on the admissibility of these complaints.
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