The government spokesperson criticized the violent actions of the health care protests and the vaccination obligation of caregivers on the island, denouncing “threatened caregivers” and “pharmacies prevented from opening”.
Le Monde with AFP
The Government spokesperson, Gabriel Attal, denounced Sunday 21 November an “intolerable and unacceptable” situation in Guadeloupe, where the dispute of the immunization obligation of caregivers degenerates into blocking and violence. The reinforcements of policemen and gendarmes sent from metropolis, including GIGN and RAID units, must arrive on Sunday on the island, he said during an interview in Europe 1, CNEWS and Echos.
“There is a situation in Guadeloupe which is absolutely intolerable and unacceptable,” the spokesman said, by attributing the blockages, fires and looting of the last days to a “small minority”.
Since the summer, the vaccination rate has progressed in Guadeloupe, with now a rate of nearly 90% of vaccinated caregivers, but does not exceed 35% in the general population.
Attal denounces a “radicalized minority”
“This little minority that blocked by the words, by the words (…), today she has radicalized and she tries to block them, to intimidate them by violence,” he denounced, evoking “threatened caregivers”, “pharmacies prevented from opening” and “blocked ambulances on the dams”.
The General Union of Guadeloupe workers (UGTG), on the initiative of the challenge that shakes the island, called on Saturday “to continue mobilization and reinforce the popular peps”, in a statement.
On the night Friday to Saturday, marked by many degradations, police and gendarmes have been targeted by shots, making a lightweight wounded, despite the curfew imposed from Friday night.