This Thursday, January 13, France 2 will broadcast a new issue of Cash Investigation entitled Freedom, health, inequalities. A report in which Olivier Véran, the Minister of Health, refused to intervene.
Each new issue of Cash Investigation is eagerly awaited by viewers. The one broadcast this Thursday January 13, entitled Freedom, health inequalities, will be devoted to a hot topic since it will evoke the use of public money in the field of health. As revealed TV-Leisure, the investigation will highlight, among other things, the fact that of clinics and hospitals operate without the necessary authorizations. A practice that Olivier Véran wanted to ban when he was still a deputy. In 2018, he voted for an amendment sanctioning establishments and requesting reimbursement of operations. However, this would not be applied today.
For this unpublished number, it was therefore unthinkable for Elise Lucet and her teams not to contact Olivier Véran, the Minister of Health. But the latter refused any request for an interview. Why ? The star journalist of France Televisions explained it in Media Culture on Europe 1 this Wednesday January 12.
Elise Lucet protests against Olivier Véran’s mistrust
According to Elise Lucet, Olivier Véran would not have not in accordance with the format of the show. The latter would have imposed to be interviewed live, something the journalist refused. “I find that asking a journalist to do live when there is none on the show, It is not possible“, she lamented at the microphone of Philippe Vandel on Europe 1. She also affirms that it is the first time that a member of the government shows such mistrust towards the teams of Cash Investigation.
“We have made requests to all ministers of all governments. All the ministers have responded to us. None of them complained about the editing of his words“, hammered Elise Lucet, citing in particular her interview with Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, with whom there would have been”no problem”. “Excuse me, but we don’t do ministerial communication. Yes the journalist has a decision-making eye on the assembly. If ministers only want to do ministerial communication, this is not the right address. We do journalism, we want to inform the citizens who are in front of us “, concluded the widow of Martin Bourgeois, who deplores that the Minister of Health could not grant himr “half an hour” in the name of the general interest.