The infectious disease specialist and microbiology professor Didier Raoult, a flagship figure in the coronavirus crisis in France, is not shy. Journalist Jean-Jacques Bourdin, known for his muscular interviews, also has his tongue in his pocket. Bring the two together on a television set, let's say that of Bourdin Direct, the morning political meeting of RMC… And you will get a tense exchange, as has already happened with the professor on BFMTV. This is what happened Thursday, June 25, 2020 in the morning. Invited to speak the day after his hearing before the committee of inquiry of the National Assembly on the management of the health crisis, the great defender of the treatment of Covid-19 by hydroxychloroquine did not allow himself to face to the famous interviewer. The tension started to rise barely fifteen minutes after the start of the interview, when Jean-Jacques Bourdin said to him: "You said, rightly so, we didn't treat people. Are you saying that doctors have killed patients if they have not treated them? " The doctor reacts from tick to tick: "No, no, no, keep your deductions for yourself," he replies. “All in all, when we tell people‘ If you are sick, stay at home and take Doliprane, you don't treat people. Here. Period. They may die, but people die or they are killed is a different point. "
"Can we both leave?"
Jean-Jacques Bourdin continues the interrogation and continues: “Sorry, sorry Didier Raoult. You also said: ‘Here in Paris, we counted the dead, I counted the positives. Isn't it insulting to the Ile-de-France caregivers, the families of the victims, it shocked! ” And Didier Raoult to retort: “You know, I don't come often. In Marseille, I am extraordinarily popular, but… ” Jean-Jacques Bourdin cuts it: "It's not popularity that heals." The infectiologist gets angry: "No, I'm the one who cares. You’re not the one looking after either. Have you ever looked after someone in your life? Did you save someone in your life? So calm down, calm down. Listen. Don't explain the medicine to me. I have only treated people […] What I told you, what I repeat to you and do not make a false inference, I told you that when we say to people 'Do not do stay home… ” Jean-Jacques Bourdin cuts it again: "So we kill people?" And Didier Raoult to get carried away a little more, tapping his fist on the table: “We don't kill people! Listen, are you going to repeat it ten times? I'm going to get up and go. So you're listening to what I'm telling you, okay? I don't care about you, you know, and your popularity, I don't care too. So if we don't care, can we both leave? ” He then pretends to get up and the journalist invites him to sit down, starting a new question … then letting go of him, tired: "Go ahead … don't go, I have questions for you." Before sitting down again, Didier Raoult then lets go: “Ask me smart questions and stop repeating things to me.” Before changing the subject, Jean-Jacques Bourdin concludes: “Don't tell me I'm not asking smart questions. You are not a journalist. I'm not a doctor, you're not a journalist … Well, I'm changing the subject. "
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