For July 14, Tuesday, a national tribute will be paid to caregivers who have been fighting coronavirus for more than four months now. On Europe 1, Claire Loupiac, the widow of an emergency physician who died of Covid-19 in April, attacks Emmanuel Macron and the executive. "It is out of the question for our leaders to get away with it," she said.

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Her emergency room husband died of coronavirus last April. Since then, Claire Loupiac has been trying to highlight the flaws in public power in the management of the epidemic, which, according to her, led to the contamination of her husband, Éric Loupiac, who officiated at the Lons-le-Saunier hospital. , in the Jura. On Europe 1, the doctor's widow explains why she will not go to the national tribute paid to caregivers for July 14, Tuesday, in Paris. It also demands "explanations of what happened in this crisis".

"For me, this invitation is inappropriate," sweeps Claire Loupiac, whose husband, aged 60, died on April 23, five weeks after the onset of the first symptoms. "I have the impression that Emmanuel Macron would like to thank my husband for willingly taking the risk of being contaminated in an under-equipped hospital."

An "inappropriate" invitation

According to Claire Loupiac, the intentions of the executive with this tribute are not the right ones: "I regret that we mixed the national holiday, July 14, with the homage to the caregivers", she deplores. For me, the tribute to the deceased caregivers had to be paid in the form of national mourning, as in Italy or Spain. I have the impression that in France, we ignore the victims and we mix things up. "

Éric Loupiac's widow will nonetheless be in Paris on Tuesday to parade from Place de la République to Place de la Bastille. It intends to denounce the attitude of the government towards the hospital world and "the lack of consideration of caregivers on the part of our leaders".