PARIS (Reuters) – The Court of Cassation has overturned the indictment of the former Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn for “endangering others” in the context of the government’s management of the health crisis linked to the epidemic. of COVID-19, she announced in a statement released Friday.
Agnès Buzyn was indicted in September 2021 by the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR), which launched an investigation in July 2020 following the filing of dozens of complaints.
Agnès Buzyn resigned from her post as Minister of Health in February 2020, at the very start of the COVID-19 pandemic, to devote herself to the municipal campaign in Paris and had been replaced by Olivier Véran.
“The offense of endangering others can only be blamed on a person if a law or regulation imposes a particular obligation of prudence or safety on him. This obligation must be objective, immediately perceptible and clearly applicable”, recalls the Court of Cassation.
“However, none of the texts to which the investigating committee referred to indict the former Minister of Health provides for any particular obligation of prudence or security.”
Agnès Buzyn is now automatically placed under the status of “assisted witness”, which means that she remains implicated but that no offense is more directly reproached to her.
(Bertrand Boucey and Blandine Henault)
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