Videos, broadcast Thursday evening on Chinese social networks, showed locals outside a residential complex shouting on police officers with shrews attempting to progress among the crowd.
Le Monde and AFP
Shanghaia people faced police officers who force them to give up their apartments to isolate positive persons to the coronavirus, according to several videos broadcast Thursday, April 14, a sign of incremental discontent in the inflexible political anti-Covid.
The Chinese economic capital is currently facing its most serious outbreak since the beginning of the pandemic. Almost all 25 million people have been confined since the beginning of April, with difficulties of access to food.
The authorities isolate positive, even asymptomatic persons, placing them in quarantine centers. But with more than 20,000 new daily positive cases in recent days, they struggle to follow the cadence.
“hit people”
Videos, broadcast on Chinese social networks, showed inhabitants outside a residential complex, shouting on police with shields, dressed in integral protective combinations and attempting to progress among the crowd. On the images, police officers seem to stop several protesters, while residents accuse the police for “hitting people”.
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In a live broadcast on the social network WeChat and retrieved by the France-Presse agency, a woman in tears declares:
“The Zhangjiang group wants to make our residential complex a place of forty and place people positive to the coronavirus!”
The promoter ensures offering compensation to the inhabitants and have relocated them to another wing in the same neighborhood. The censors have removed a large part of the online videos on the incident.
Exasperation of the inhabitants
The inhabitants of Shanghai seem more and more exasperated by the difficulties of access to food and forced isolation of positive people in quarantine centers with random comfort and hygiene. The publication on the Internet of violently euthanasiés pets has also made scandal.
Events are much less frequent in China than in the West, but they occur regularly. Not media, they find an echo on the internet, where the speed of diffusion of content often takes short censorship.