Agnès Buzyn once again wants to make things clear about her role at the start of the Covid-19 crisis. The former Minister of Health Agnès, in office at the very beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, will therefore publish the diary she kept at the time, Flammarion editions announced on Monday.
Journal, January-June 2020 (496 pages) is due out September 27, its publisher said. “This intimate and precise account sheds new light on this unprecedented crisis which has upset millions of French people. It will allow readers to dive into the challenges, the difficult decisions and the significant events that shaped this period”, explains Flammarion in the presentation of the book.
A resignation at the time of the explosion of the pandemic
The author has been Minister of Health since the start of Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term, in May 2017, until his resignation in the midst of the explosion of the pandemic, on February 16, 2020, when she is designated as the majority candidate. Presidential at the Paris City Hall.
The Court of Justice of the Republic indicted her in September 2021, because of her management of the pandemic. Then the Court of Cassation overturned this decision in January 2023, to make him an assisted witness in an investigation into “voluntary abstention from fighting a claim”.
Agnès Buzyn, a doctor, has always claimed that she had very early taken the measure of the seriousness of the coronavirus detected in Wuhan in China in December 2019, and that nothing can be reproached to her by Justice. “I want to reveal moments in our common history, behind the scenes, the missing pieces of the puzzle, those held by the political leader that I was. I hope that this newspaper will be able to shed light on the national narrative, with its successes and failures, and help with collective feedback, ”she said, quoted by her editor.