The infectiologist of the most famous and controversial of France now believes publicly that the health crisis has not been managed optimally by the public authorities. This Wednesday, he is questioned by mps, follow the online exchanges.

[updated 24 June at 16h48] for weeks, months even, professor Raoult was well kept of Emmanuel Macron, and the government for the management of the crisis of the sars coronavirus. But clearly, the beatings he has received since the month of march on the part of many scientists and on the part of the ministry of Health, for the lack of methodological rigor of his work, had reason for his reserve. In an interview to Provence published on Tuesday, the infectious diseases physician believes that the executive has not acted in a way quite rational. "The greatest fault of government does not concern decisions on the chloroquine. They have been embedded in a history they could not get out, in the emotion, they were in the overshooting. On the other hand, it has done the reverse of what we should do in the treatment of infectious diseases", he said.

For the doctor, the scientific Council set up by Emmanuel Macron has fuelled speculation about the virus. "If this had been a true scientific Council, we could have made surveys in four or five locations to measure the kinetics of the epidemic. We would have had numbers rather than fantasies", he says, sure have been able to avoid the deaths of thousands of people if he had been heard. "If we had not been afraid, we would have had two times fewer deaths, if people had listened to me, we would have had two times less" dead, " he said. And they add : "Among these deaths, over half of them have been, not because of poor medical management, or of the Covid, but the mess that it was fucked up in the health, because in practice it has not treated the people".

live : professor Raoult auditioned at the national Assembly

from 17h on Wednesday, Didier Raoult is heard by the deputies of the parliamentary investigation commission of the national Assembly. The chain LCP will be showing all the exchanges live and offers track via his Twitter account :

[DIRECT] Follow laudition de @raoult_didier, director of @IHU_Marseille by the commission study on the COVID-19 #DirectAN

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An oversized ego ? "We are not all equal"

on Wednesday 24 June, in Paris, which he pointed out the very significant number of publications in scientific journals sow the seeds of doubt among his colleagues, he answers : "Is it that you ask how Mozart has done ? I'll even tell you, in more than 150 publications per year, I have written ten books in the same time. It is not all equal. In this country, we love to decapitate people."

This son of a military doctor is a man of ideas and positions, prior to exposure to the general public for his work on the chloroquine. Infectious diseases physician had issued notice polemics, particularly on the global warming. Recently in the Obs, it was justified : "I am a stoic. The only thing that matters is the esteem of myself. With my experience and that of my family, even if the majority of people say that something is true, I give myself the right to doubt and put everything in question. The warming, on a personal basis, I don't see it. My job is to be lucid." In 2016, in a column published in The Point, the director of the laboratory took a position against the ban of the veil in the universities. "My laboratory of the faculty of medicine of la Timone, in Marseille, currently has 115 foreign level course thesis and post-doctoral students. Among those, women wear a headscarf, others are in a miniskirt and fishnet stockings, and everyone is working together," he said.

Date Of Update: 24 June 2020, 11:57