Didier Raoult retired from Marseille Hospitals – France Bleu

This Tuesday is last day of Didier Raoult within the AP-HM (public assistance from Marseille hospitals). Born on March 13, 1952, the famous microbiologist arrives at 69 years old at the fateful age of retirement. The new leadership of the AP-HM did not wish to extend it. Tomorrow, Wednesday September 1, he will no longer be a university professor-hospital practitioner (PU-PH) within Aix-Marseille University and Marseille university hospitals. He is therefore no longer the head of the department. He no longer teaches. In these two institutions.

The general management appointed on June 6 refused his request for additional vacancies: two half-days per week. The new director general of the AP-HM, ex-number 2 of the Hospitals of Paris, François Crémieux, does not hide it: “We must turn the page Raoult”. Declaration of August 18 in the newspaper “Le Monde”.

Raoult not supported by the establishment medical commission

Jean-Luc Jouve is on the same wavelength. The president of the medical establishment commission of the AP-HM, at the microphone of France Bleu Provence, refuses any controversy, while making no gift. “He asked for two half-day shifts per week. We could not expect a great job. We will say that he succeeded in his succession because he is surrounded by a brilliant team with whom we are already working”. Accused by the vox populi of wanting silence the bulky media teacher, Jean-Luc Jouve defends himself: “We are in a democracy. He can always continue to express himself”.

But it is quite clear that the last outing of the professor on vaccination, “modest protection on variants” according to him, sealed his fate. Jean-Luc Jouve: “To express doubts about the effectiveness of public health is unacceptable. It is a bad message to send. When we see the very low vaccination rate in the most needy districts of Marseille, somewhere, the ‘IHU has its share of responsibility given its aura. ”

Retired Didier Raoult remains Director of IHU Méditerranée Infection, a scientific cooperation foundation whose board of directors meets in the fall. And among its founding members, the AP-HM does not hide its desire to oust Didier Raoult. Only this board of directors can dismiss him. But the AP-HM has only one of the 18 votes.

Located on the Timone site, this IHU covers 27,000 square meters, 5,000 of which are intended for the care of the infectious and tropical diseases division with nearly 75 full hospital beds since 2016 and 25 day hospital beds. Philippe Parola He heads a research unit supported by the IHU, he is close to Professor Raoult, and he wishes to emphasize: “Didier remains director of the IHU. He will be by our side”.

“In Marseille, you won’t find anyone who says Didier Raoult hurt.”

For fans of the professor, this page turned by retirement victimizes the Marseillais a little more. On the outskirts of the researcher’s stronghold – IHU Mediterranean – glued to the Timone hospital, we quickly realize that the iconoclast has become an icon. “He annoys, we kick him out. When you see these senators and these 80-year-old deputies sleeping in the Assembly …”

To defend Raoult is to shoot the Parisian elites. And that relieves the Marseillais. Frédéric, accountant, receives videos from Didier Raoult on his smartphone every day. “I find him credible because he opened us up to a lot of things. Those that I can’t stand are these doctors who ensure that they are understood only by themselves. Here in Marseille, you will not find nobody who says that Didier Raoult did wrong. It is likely that there are a lot of people who do not like to be contradicted in the upper echelons. “ We still found someone who said bad things about it. Sarah, pharmacy assistant: “Retirement will give him time to reread his studies! Marseille revere him, not me. Someone who exhibits his studies on Youtube, it’s perlimpinpin powder”.

However, the retired infectious disease specialist will not withdraw. Sarah’s girlfriend has no doubts: “He’ll always be talked about no matter what. I don’t think he’s really going to retire.”

Raoult at Hanouna: “I survive very easily”

Guest-star on Cyril Hanouna’s C8, this Monday evening, Didier Raoult did not spare the AP-HM, starting with its general manager. “I am more worried for him than for me, if he comes to Marseille”. Between boast and barely veiled threat. “He should calm down. I tested a quarter of the Marseillaise population, it leaves traces.”

Regarding the accusations of having reduced the effectiveness of vaccines, the professor has sworn that he will never call not to be vaccinated. “I will never call to disobey the law. I never did.” Finally on a possible sidelining of the IHU, a foundation he heads, Didier Raoult, faithful to himself, was very sure of himself: “People who imagined imposing something on me, for thirty years, I have seen them pass … I survived very easily”.