Agns Buzyn: France ex-health minister under investigation for covid responce

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Source: BBC



France's former health minister is being formally investigated over the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Prosecutors looking into government failings are investigating Agnès Buzyn for "endangering the lives of others".

Ms Buzyn left the post in February 2020 to run for Paris mayor, saying Covid was low risk. But she later spoke of knowing a "tsunami" was approaching.

It is one of the world's first cases of a minister facing legal accountability for their pandemic response.

A special court set up in France in 1993 to investigate government ministers accused of misconduct will decide whether to prosecute her.

The wording of one of the charges being investigated is "failing to fight a disaster", according to Le Monde newspaper.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58523027

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1. the former guy and admin needs to be investigated for purposefully making COVID worse

limbaugh was working for him and was calling it a hoax and then no worse than the flu long after trump told what's his facec he knew how bad it was.

tfg was getting intel briefings on it. did he/they ask for worst case scenarios that would have included state of emergency powers and calling off elections, etc? he would have liked that and aside from him having to dial the carelessness back in public his guy limbaugh triggered the last nearly two years of republican anti mask and vax bullshit from 1500 radio stations licensed to operate in the public interest

there is a pic of limbaugh having lunch with tfg around christmas 2019 with three others. they need to be asked under oath if they heard tfg tell limbaugh to downplay it

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3. +1

But can you imagine anyone investigating Azar's Covid response - to say nothing of His Orangeness' response?

Total unaccountability.

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2. interesting

the article however, while explaining the process, doesn't offer a great deal on the salient - of whether there is any real 'there' there.

The Court of Justice of the Republic is a controversial institution, which gives the judges and parliamentarians who sit on it the right to investigate, try and convict ministers for crimes arising from their government work.

For several months it's had a file open on alleged oversights and failings committed by the Macron government, especially in the early stages of the epidemic.

The court is looking into accusations of negligence in the provision of protective clothing to health staff, and confusion in the issuing of advice over masks.

But there are many in French political circles - including the opposition - who find the court's action to be troubling. An over-assertive judicial branch, they fear, is in danger of paralyzing the executive - and deterring ministers, fearful of prosecution, from anything but the most cautious response to crises that occur.