TousAntiCovid: the complaint against Véran closed

We knew that TousAntiCovid is a failure (well, let’s say that ” it did not work “) with its centralized system incompatible with other European apps, Bluetooth technology not made for contact tracing, iPhone users who have to “wake up” the application when they have to go out… In short, a fiasco. Even Jean Castex confessed on television not to have installed it. It just goes to show that you can look like a history and geography teacher in a ZEP and have a little common sense. Except that Jean-Jean is anything but a civil servant at € 2,200 / month at the end of his career.

And yes guys, prevention is for you, the beggars there. There are the underground kebabs on one side and the “Business lunches” in the large Parisian palaces on the other. These two worlds are not meant to intersect. Thank you.

The bigger it is …

But we haven’t hit the bottom of the bowl yet! LREM still has it under its feet. Cedric O, the former Secretary of State for Digital (no no, not Cédrico the salsa teacher on the ground floor), had yet promised – ” everything will be done transparently – when he mentioned the cost of the application and the way in which the contract was awarded. While the app was initially to be delivered free of charge by a consortium of companies (Orange, Cap Gemini, Dassault and especially its subsidiary Outscale), the latter finally presented an invoice. The first dose of cam was free, but since this small world has decided to opt for a centralized structure, it ultimately costs between € 200,000 and € 300,000 in operating and maintenance costs per month. In short, 6.5 million – friend price.

The anti-corruption association Anticor believes that the implementation of StopCovid (the first version of the TousAntiCovid application) should have been the subject of a call for tenders. Of course, the health emergency can excuse this speed, but since it took two months between the launch and the completion of the app, the argument does not pass.

Edit of 05/21/2021: Véran responsible, but not guilty

Olivier Véran, Minister of Health, was therefore accused of favoritism. This offense is punishable by 2 years imprisonment and a fine of 30,000 euros, but it will first be necessary for the petitions commission of the Court of Justice of the Republic to decide to validate the action. They are the only ones able to send an active minister to the galleys.

And to everyone’s surprise, the complaint was dismissed (as should have been the Batman by Tim Burton).

It’s a shame because in writing, we took the bets. Well, in case of prosecution and conviction, we saw him rather Vincennes yacht club do an ecological awareness course rather than at the Health Prison (Haha! It’s funny because he’s not the Minister of Sports), but we could always dream, right? But as said FranceTVInfo, There’s no ” sufficient evidence to determine that the Minister himself concluded the contracts denounced as contentious“. Yes. He signs, but it’s not actually him.

Then we want to give him the benefit of the doubt. Favoritism? No. Incompetence and amateurism of course. As since the start of this cursed five-year term. Nothing to report therefore.

Source: Digital Factory