Jean-Pierre Pernaut does not have his tongue in his pocket. The famous presenter of the 1 p.m. TV news on TF1 Once again proved this Thursday, December 10, 2020. The 69-year-old journalist announced that "the Director General of Health is singled out by the Senate commission of inquiry", specifying that "The Senate notes that it is he, Jérôme Salomon who, in 2018, has decided not to renew the stock of surgical masks ". After disseminating this information, the emblematic face of the PAF wanted to give your opinion on the shortage of masks experienced in France in the spring, when the coronavirus epidemic began to take on a considerable scale. "Hence the enormous delays and the boondoggles that we will not soon forget. Communications boondoggles at the start of the epidemic …", let go of Nathalie Marquay's husband.
This spike launched by Jean-Pierre Pernaut is far from trivial, since the latter was already expressed on this subject, Wednesday March 11, 2020, on the JT of the first string. "In any case, a lot of Italians with protective masks, it is the B.A.BA of protection. As in China we put on masks. In France, we are always told that it is useless, perhaps because we do not have any ", he said, between two subjects on the health crisis.
"The inconsistency of decisions" of the executive
Seven months later, Jean-Pierre Pernaut had denounced "inconsistency of decisions" of the government, a few hours before the interview with Emmanuel Macron announcing a curfew in Île-de-France and in eight metropolises, Wednesday October 14, 2020. "For now we are wondering about the curfew, it would also be a disaster for the entertainment world ", had estimated the deputy director of information of the group TF1. And add: "The intervention of the President of the Republic will be important shortly because the epidemic continues to progress […] the curfew would also concern the Île-de-France, but why a curfew when, for economic reasons, we continue to crowd into the metro every morning and every evening? "
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