French Former Health Minister Charged Over Pandemic Management

PARIS—French prosecutors brought preliminary costs versus a former health and fitness minister over her steps through the initial months of the coronavirus pandemic, part of a probe that is examining how the federal government of President Emmanuel Macron responded to the crisis.

Agnès Buzyn was charged on Friday with endangering the lives of some others by the Court docket of Justice of the Republic, a distinctive French courtroom that prosecutes misconduct by federal government ministers, a spokeswoman for the courtroom stated. Ms. Buzyn, a hematologist, was health and fitness minister from May perhaps 2017 till February 2020, when Mr. Macron tapped her to be his party’s candidate in an unsuccessful bid to be Paris mayor.