Guest of the entrepreneurs' forum in Marseille, Nicolas Sarkozy was asked about the health crisis.
He defended Professor Didier Raoult against his detractors, deeming that he was a "scapegoat" for the coronavirus crisis which did "what he could".
Nicolas Sarkozy defended Didier Raoult on Friday at the entrepreneurs' forum held in Marseille.
He considers that the researcher, at the heart of a controversy over the use of chloroquine against the coronavirus, is a "scapegoat" for the health crisis.
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"Everyone did what they could, and he was the first"
"Each crisis, we must find scapegoats. It is a French disease. The adversary is the Covid, it is not this or that doctor and I am thinking in particular of Professor Raoult", denounced the former President of the Republic during an intervention during this forum, in front of entrepreneurs.
"I do not understand why there is so much violence against him. He is a man of great quality who has done his best to treat his patients as well as possible, who has undoubtedly made mistakes as we all do. , me first, "he considers.
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Nicolas Sarkozy also targeted the detractors of Didier Raoult.
"I observe that in times of crisis, there are pseudo-specialists who rush in and say bad things about someone. We need a culprit and this is the one. It seemed inappropriate to me" , he explains.
"I have no competence to say who is right and who is wrong. In any case, that was not the subject. Everyone did as he could, and him the first," he concludes.