This is a face-to-face very much anticipated. Didier Raoult is going to be heard Wednesday, 24 June at 17 hours by the commission of inquiry on the management of the crisis of the sars coronavirus. Professor marseille, which has multiplied the output in the media in recent times, should not deny its principles. The day before, he stated in The Provence : "If we had not been afraid, we would have had two times less than dead ; if you had listened to me, we would have had two times fewer deaths. "
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A new sentence at the shock, already repeated several times, which he should explain. His presence was a highlight for Brigitte Bourguignon, mp LREM and chairperson of the commission : "It has been a part of this" health crisis ", she says with Europe 1. "There has been controversy about the effectiveness or not of the chloroquine, it is important that we can understand things," says his side the mp PS Boris Vallaud, who co-chairs the commission.
Explanation expected
The professor Raoult will inevitably be asked about how he kept the management of the crisis of the sars coronavirus by the government from Marseille. After a struggle for the hydroxychloroquine to be recognized as a treatment against the virus, he had slammed the door of the scientific council, whose role has been crucial, with Emmanuel Macron to make the important decisions.
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IHU Marseille, which he directs, is focused as an example on the question of tests, where the government is accused of having delayed too long to implement. For Éric Ciotti, interviewed by Europe 1, the commission " will have a heart to see why the example of the institute headed by professor Raoult has been, on the contrary, a good student and has been successful in terms of tests." The commission of inquiry is also intended to be pluralistic. The head of the department of infectious diseases at the hôpital Saint-Antoine, Karine Lacombe, who never stopped calling into question the statements of professor Raoult, will also be interviewed Thursday.
