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 for publication on September 27, the publisher said in a statement.
“This intimate and precise account offers unprecedented insight into this unprecedented crisis which has upset millions of French people. It will allow readers to dive into the challenges, difficult decisions and significant events which have shaped this period”, explains Flammarion in the presentation of the book.
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 was nominated as the majority candidate. presidential candidate for 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”.
Mrs. 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 nothing can be reproached to her by Justice.
“I want to reveal moments of 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 can illuminate the national narrative, with its successes and its failures, and help in a collective feedback”, she said, quoted by her editor.
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08/28/2023 11:36:59 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP