Edouard Philippe during the press conference given on March 28, 2020, in Paris. - VAN DER HASSELT / POOL / SIPA

Edouard Philippe denounced Saturday the very cold reception that some caregivers receive from their neighbors, worried about a possible contamination with the new coronavirus. Deploring the “dark part” that can re-emerge during such a health crisis, the Prime Minister criticized, during a press conference, “these scandalous words of a certain number of people who are worried about the presence on the landing next to or below their homes, nurses, caregivers or doctors because they would be exposed to the virus more than others. ”

"I had the opportunity in the National Assembly to say that when our country is faced with a crisis of this magnitude, we could see what was brighter and what was darker in the human person, "he said. "The darkest are the traffics, the resale of masks, the black market which can exist in the matter" and "these are these scandalous words".

The darkest thing in the human person is the traffic in masks and these are the scandalous words of a certain number of people who worry about the presence, next to their homes, of carers, because they would be exposed more than others to the virus. # COVID19 pic.twitter.com/GHsa09smhS

- Edouard Philippe (@EPhilippePM) March 28, 2020

Anonymous messages

Some caregivers have shared, especially on social networks, messages, most often anonymous, from their neighbors asking them to leave their building, for fear of being contaminated by the comings and goings of these doctors and nurses, who are fighting every day against the virus.

"This dark part must not make us forget the luminous part which is much more majority and which is admirable," insisted the Prime Minister, evoking "exceptional solidarity initiatives (…) here and there", to "help the caregivers, supporting isolated and sometimes dependent elderly people ”.

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