François Bachelot


François Bachelot is a French physician and politician.

Early life

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

Career

Bachelot is a physician. He runs a cancer clinic in La Garenne-Colombes, a suburb of Paris in the Hauts-de-Seine.
He joined the National Front. He served as a member of the National Assembly from 1986 to 1988. 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 He also suggested AIDS could be spread via perspiration and saliva. In a 1999 interview, he suggested all of this was what physicians believed at the time.