French Former Health Minister Charged Over Pandemic Management

PARIS—French prosecutors introduced preliminary costs in opposition to a previous health minister about her steps during the initial months of the coronavirus pandemic, portion of a probe that is examining how the govt of President Emmanuel Macron responded to the disaster.

Agnès Buzyn was billed on Friday with endangering the life of other people by the Court of Justice of the Republic, a distinctive French courtroom that prosecutes misconduct by govt ministers, a spokeswoman for the courtroom reported. Ms. Buzyn, a hematologist, was health minister from May 2017 right until February 2020, when Mr. Macron tapped her to be his party’s candidate in an unsuccessful bid to be Paris mayor.