Édouard Philippe, Olivier Véran and Agnès Buzyn worried about the management of the Covid-19 crisis? Judicial information will be opened at the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR), announced, Friday, July 3, the Attorney General at the Court of Cassation, François Molins.

The complaints commission, made up of senior magistrates and which acts as a filter, has indeed found admissible nine complaints against the three former ministers. Under the terms of the procedure, François Molins is required to seize the investigative commission of the CJR, which will act as an investigating judge and lead the investigations.

A total of 90 complaints have been received to date by the CJR, the only body empowered to try members of the government for the exercise of their functions, and 53 of them have been examined.

Among them, 34 were declared inadmissible because they did not target a member of the government or because the complainant had no interest in taking action. Ten others, targeting in particular the former Ministers of Justice Nicole Belloubet, Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian or the Interior Christophe Castaner, were classified without further action.

"Abstain from fighting a disaster"

The nine remaining were joined for the referral of the investigation commission of the only chief of "abstention from fighting a disaster" against Agnès Buzyn, Edouard Philippe and Olivier Véran, according to the press release of the public prosecutor.

The first occupied the post of Minister of Health until mid-February, before leaving to seek the mayor's office in Paris. The last two were part of the government, which resigned on Friday morning.

The complaints to the CJR had begun to be filed a few days after the confinement began in mid-March. They come from individuals, doctors, associations, or even prisoners.

The Head of State, Emmanuel Macron, is himself criminally irresponsible for acts carried out in the exercise of his functions.

The complainants complained, as the case may be, of "endangering the lives of others", "manslaughter", "failure to assist a person in danger" or failure to take timely action to stem the pandemic.

The latter has so far caused nearly 30,000 deaths in France.

With AFP

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