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Coronavirus on the Charles-de-Gaulle aircraft carrier: the start of a controversy

Whereas on Tuesday evening, out of the 1,767 sailors of the Charles-de-Gaulle aircraft carrier tested, 668 tested positive, a controversy arose over how the epidemic was taken into account after the discovery of the first cases on the building.

The source of the carrier’s contamination remains an enigma. The crew, on a mission for three months, were not in contact with an outside element after a stopover in Brest, during which a relief of about fifty people got on board and hundreds of sailors got off down.

A crew member who is one third of the sailors tested positive, said on radio France Bleu that the commander of the nuclear aircraft carrier would have proposed to interrupt the mission as soon as he stopped in Brest, from March 13 to 16 . According to him, this proposal was refused by the Ministry of the Armed Forces. “The army has played with our health, our life,” said the sailor.

“Very officially, I deny this information. It is wrong,” replied Thursday on RTL the spokesman for the French Navy, Captain Eric Lavault.

“People need to understand that putting a crew at risk is out of the question,” he added. “The heart of a ship’s combat system is its crew. So it’s the most precious asset.”

The vessel (1,750 sailors) and the air defense frigate that accompanied it (200 sailors) joined the port of Toulon on Sunday two weeks ahead of its schedule, after the initial discovery of around fifty Covid cases -19.

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