Jean Castex, dips in the large bath in the media. After a first interview on TF1 soon after its appointment, the new Prime minister was on the board of BFM TV/RMC Wednesday. The opportunity to first put the point on topics that are lot of talk about these days. And, in particular, the appointment of some ministers such as that of Gérald Darmanin Inside, despite an investigation for rape, the aimed. Jean Castex was thus assured that he was "totally" the appointment of thirty-year-old to Beauvau.

" I assume completely in this designation, (Gérald Darmanin) has the right like everyone else to the presumption of innocence ", explained the head of the government on BFM TV, while the court of appeal of Paris has ordered the beginning of June the resumption of the investigation on the charges of rape, sexual harassment and breach of trust made against the minister.

Prepare France for a possible second wave of the epidemic

In a completely different register, Jean Castex, also announced Wednesday that he would travel on Sunday in French Guiana, an overseas territory of where the virus Covid-19 circulates actively. "I'm going on Sunday in Guyana. In Guyana, you have seen it, it goes wrong, " said Jean Castex. "I come (in the sense of mission which has been entrusted to me, with the will to prepare France for a possible second wave, but especially in preserving life, economic life, social life ", he added. Guyana, a territory neighbouring Brazil, particularly affected by the epidemic, had on Tuesday 5 178 cases (+ 124 in 24 hours), 123 inpatient and 30 in the icu, and 21 deaths.

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