Paris (AFP)
The leader of France rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon said Sunday that "nothing [had] been organized" to deal with a second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic.
"The truth is, nothing was organized," Mélenchon told BFMTV.
"There are no extra beds, there is no staff that we would need".
"And we hoped that it will happen", he continued, citing "the reasoning of those who say to themselves + the population must auto-immunize by dint of catching it, it will generate antibodies and therefore l 'epidemic will decline as is the case for influenza + ".
As the journalist pointed out to him that this is not the strategy chosen by France, the member for Bouches-du-Rhône considered that "it looks like it".
“When nothing is organized, you say + why? +, You cannot start from the idea that they are incapable, you say to yourself + they have an idea in their head,” he added.
For the leader of the Insoumis, "it all smacks of shambles".
He notably raised the issue of testing.
"How we do in France to pay 73 euros, billed to the Social Security, that we will ruin in two stages three movements with a similar method, to give results after seven days, which from there no longer serve to nothing? ”he asked.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon again said he feared "the way in which the population would take new extremely strict containment measures".
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