- Snapshots of demonstrators in blue coats repressed by police have been circulating on social networks for several days, angering Internet users.
- These photos date from ten years ago and specifically concern a category of caregivers, the nurse anesthetists, who then asked for a salary increase.
- A nurse who posted these photos on her Facebook account explains the reasons that led her to bring out these photos in the current anxiety-provoking context.
Several photos of caregiver demonstrations suppressed by the police have been circulating on social networks for the past few days. “It was the time when we asked for means to take better care !! Who was right ???? ”, Indicates in particular the author of one of these viral publications, thus suggesting that the recent mobilization of the caregivers to demand additional means, before the crisis of the coronavirus, was scorned by the executive and the police.
In these photos, most of the time gathered in a single image, we can see caregivers gathered in the street, wearing masks, skullcaps and dressed in blue coats, struggling with police and gendarmes. The violence and tension are palpable and, in one of the photos, the police are spraying tear gas from the demonstrators lying on the ground.
Montages of these shots were also made with the portrait of Emmanuel Macron.
Tweets use these same shots in response to a video on Tuesday March 27, in which police officers applaud the nursing staff in front of the emergency department of the Clamart hospital (Hauts-de-Seine).
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In a context that is extremely tense for the health system, comments are bursting out: “It's not that far away! I hope this government will pay for its faults "," They will reap what they did, you have the power now "," Now we are all in the same basket and everyone is applauding "," C 'the musicians are paid for at the end of the ball…', write some internet users.
Others castigate the waste of medical equipment used for demonstrations, equipment that has become even more precious since Covid-19: "These masks, these blouses, these caps that are sorely lacking today!" Manifesting his dissatisfaction, yes ... wasting material that does not belong to you is inconceivable! "
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A reverse search on Google images shows that these photos were taken ten years ago. On an Agoravox, citizen journalism website, we find, in an article dated April 6, 2010, the snapshot of the demonstrators sprayed with tear gas by the police: “The police lose their temper on March 30, 2010 , at 2:20 p.m., boulevard du Jeu-de-Paume in Montpellier during a sit-in by state-certified nurse anesthetists (IADE). "
The photo of a demonstrator who was forcibly evacuated also dates from 2010, during a demonstration on May 18, still nurse anesthetists, who blocked the tracks of Montparnasse station, in Paris, in order to be received by the Minister of Health, Roselyne Bachelot. They then demanded a salary increase and wanted their training to be recognized at the master level, ie bac + 5.
Ditto for the photo of gendarmes facing a crowd of blue coats. The photo was, for example, published in 2010 on the NPA website.
"If we give up, our children can no longer be treated"
A nurse who posted these pictures under a pseudonym on Facebook explains to 20 Minutes the reasons for her gesture: “Indeed, the photos do not date from the recent demonstrations which have caused a lot of ink to flow. It was to say that since all this time, the budget cuts, the abolition of the beds, the non-revaluation of our conditions and our wages (among the least countries of the EU), nothing has changed… Worse, our conditions have deteriorated! Unfortunately, it takes a global health crisis to realize our working conditions and the state of health of our hospital public service. Despite all that, we still trust them, them our democratically elected leaders and our medical leaders, because we know that if we give up tomorrow, it may be our parents or worse, our children who will no longer be able to be treated. "
Some of these photos had already been used a few weeks ago by Internet users, when hospital staff mobilized to demand more resources. They were wrongly presented as dating from the five-year period of Emmanuel Macron.
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