Covid-19: The investigation targeting several former ministers regarding the management of the pandemic is closed, what emerges from it

The investigation into the management of the Covid-19 pandemic, which targeted former Health Ministers Agnès Buzyn and Olivier Véran, as well as former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, is officially closed.

According to our colleagues at France Info, the Court of Justice of the Republic closed its investigations on November 28, 2024, concerning the management of the Covid-19 pandemic. The CJR is the only body that can judge ministers for such circumstances.

It was in March 2020 that complaints were filed against Edouard Philippe, Agnès Buzyn and Olivier Véran, both Minister of Health at the time.

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“Voluntary abstention”

The CJR's mission was to investigate their possible responsibility, but also the spread of Covid-19. What they were mainly criticized for was: the thousands of deaths, or the lack of masks for the population.

The former Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, was also criticized for having maintained the municipal elections of May 2020. Indeed, the latter had left the government at the start of the health crisis to run for mayor of Paris. “The risks of the coronavirus spreading among the population [were] very low”, she had declared in particular at the beginning of 2020, from the Elysée.

The Court of Cassation ruled in early 2023 that“none of the texts for indicting the former Minister of Health provide for a particular obligation of prudence or safety”, thus acquitting her of her indictment for “endangering others.”

The investigation is therefore now over, without any indictment. Thus surely opening the way to a probable dismissal in the coming months.