Covid-19: Charging French former health minister with endangering lives was “very unȷust,” says former prime minister

The former French health minister Agnès Buzyn should not have been charged with putting the lives of the public in danger for her handling of the covid pandemic in the first two months of 2020, the former French prime minister Édouard Philippe has said.Buzyn, health minister between 2017 and 2020, was charged by the French Court of Justice of the Republic in September 2021 for “endangering the lives of others” and was given “assisted witness” status for “voluntarily abstaining from fighting a disaster.”The court, which was set up in 1993 to investigate and judge ministers accused of criminal offences in their work while in office, is looking into nine of the thousands of complaints filed against ministers who dealt with France’s response to the pandemic.France is thought to be the only country in the world to take government ministers to court for allegedly mishandling the pandemic.As an “assisted witness” Buzyn…
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