- Last week, due to two suspected coronaviruses and one proven case, more than 70 municipal police officers in Toulouse were gradually placed in the fortnight.
- For a question of public order, and because their mission is "vital", their hierarchy asked them to resume work on Monday.
- The FO union, majority in the Capitol, denounces "a complete aberration".
"If we are not protected, how do you want to protect others? Didier Cabanié, municipal police officer in Toulouse and FO union delegate, has not given up since his colleagues placed in the fortnight last week were asked to return to work on Monday. "It's a complete aberration," he adds furiously.
The case concerns more than 70 agents (out of a staff of 330) who had been asked to return home in waves: 30 Wednesday after a suspected case of Covid-19 in the ranks, 30 others Thursday due to a new suspicion , the others during the weekend after a positive test on a third official.
"Vital Mission to the Nation"
The town hall of Toulouse had already indicated after the first two waves that it planned to recall all the agents who did not present symptoms. It therefore decided as planned for a very rapid return of staff to normal: "The precautionary principle has been applied disproportionately by the hierarchy, the Capitol is justified to 20 Minutes . They exercise a mission considered as vital to the Nation which justifies their retention in post ”. Jean-Luc Moudenc (LR), the mayor of Toulouse, goes even further in a statement to Agence France Presse. He underlines the risk, with the fourteen precautionary measures, of "creating case law" for all public services.
Obviously Didier Cabanié does not have the same point of view on the border between health and safety at all. "A week of isolation might have been enough, but we put them back on the circuit when they may be contaminated, it's scandalous! “Storms the unionist. He was all the more upset that, from now on, the municipal police officers were verbalizing the confinement sprains. “When the exceptions are folded, you have to touch them. And, sorry, me two meters away, even at one, I can't read an ID ”.
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The police officer states that "only two masks per officer were distributed for the duration of the confinement". He washes his own in the evening with a disinfectant wipe. For its part, the town hall claims that it “has provided each unit with personal protective equipment (PPE) so that they can carry out their mission safely, even when their mission requires close contact with people at risk. »…
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- Toulouse
- Jean-Luc Moudenc
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