François Bachelot

François Bachelot (born 1940) is a French physician and politician.

François Bachelot
Born (1940-04-19) 19 April 1940
NationalityFrench
OccupationPolitician, physician
RelativesRoselyne Bachelot (sister-in-law)[1]

Early life

François Bachelot was born on 19 April 1940 in Le Mans, in northern France.[2]

Career

Bachelot is a physician.[2] He runs a cancer clinic in La Garenne-Colombes,[3] a suburb of Paris in the Hauts-de-Seine.

He joined the National Front.[2] He served as a member of the National Assembly from 1986 to 1988.[2] An ally of Jean-Marie Le Pen, he came up with the idea of sending patients with HIV/AIDS to "sidatoriums" to curtail a "generalised epidemic," which was widely repeated by Le Pen[3] He also suggested AIDS could be spread via perspiration and saliva.[3] In a 1999 interview, he suggested all of this was what physicians believed at the time.[3]

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