The former Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn, in office at the very beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, will publish the diary she kept at the time, Flammarion editions announced on Monday. Journal, January-June 2020 (496 pages) is due out September 27, the publisher said in a statement. “This intimate and precise account sheds new light on this unprecedented crisis which has upset millions of French people. It will allow readers to delve into the challenges, difficult decisions and landmark events that shaped this period,” explains Flammarion in the introduction to the book.
The author has been Minister of Health since the beginning 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 was nominated as candidate for the presidential majority at the mayor of Paris.
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 taken the measure of the seriousness of the coronavirus detected in Wuhan (China) very early on in December 2019, and that she cannot be blamed for anything by the courts.
“I want to reveal moments of our common history, behind the scenes, the missing pieces of the puzzle, those held by the politician that I was. I hope this newspaper can shed light on the national narrative, with its successes and failures, and help collective feedback, “she said, quoted by her editor.