At Parisianthe former Minister of Health believes it is time to “show transparency”.
Overnight, he became the face of an unprecedented health crisis. It is told. Olivier Véran, former Minister of Health, publishes a book, Beyond the waves (Robert Laffont) on the months spent managing a country paralyzed by the coronavirus.
A book to justify yourself? No, refutes the now Delegate Minister for Democratic Renewal in an interview with the Parisian. A book forbear witness” and “show transparency“. But also for “to present [s]apologies“.
“Part of the public criticized us for having knowingly lied about the masks, to hide the shortage“, remembers Olivier Véran with our colleagues. “This is not the case. The truth is that on the masks, we were wrong, neither more nor less.So, he continues, that among the constraints imposed by the government during the first confinement, some may, in retrospect, be considered absurd. “When we reopen the restaurant terraces by requiring flower boxes or Plexiglas panels to separate the tableshe takes as an example. It makes you modest, crisis management…»
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“I touched the finger on the burn-out”
A book that takes stock, but also, a book “very personal” in a way “to hide nothing“. Olivier Véran goes so far as to confide:I touched the burn-out, I think.“Short nights, nausea and stress”permanent»… «I started to meditate, it helped me a lot“, he says on a daily basis.
Before returning to the search that had been made of his apartment while an investigation into the health crisis was launched. A episode “violent“, he believes. “When I had gone to bed at 2 a.m., and the day before the state of health emergency had just been pronounced, eighteen magistrates and police officers with armbands arrived in my living room. (…) It is normal for justice to work, but not abnormal to experience this violation of my privacy as something violent.»
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