Jérôme Marty is a general practitioner at Fronton and has received death threats on several occasions.
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Jerome Marty
Some doctors, in particular the most media, have been targeted in recent months by insults and threats on the Internet and in their offices.
Duration of the crisis, hypermediatization of certain doctors, weakening of a part of the population… The reasons are various.
Jérôme Marty, general practitioner in Occitania, explains how these death threats emerged and why it is essential to file a complaint and publicize this new phenomenon.
“What we hear most often is 'shut up, go and take care of people!'”, Summarizes Jérôme Marty, general practitioner.
Threatened several times by mail or telephone, insulted on social networks, the president of the Syndicat Union Française pour une Médecine Libre has been the spokesperson for doctors threatened with death in recent months.
The attacks began to rain “since September with the anti-masks, when we, with the union and the collective Du Côté de la Science, published articles on the interest of wearing a mask at school.
And then immediately behind, the film
Hold up
accelerated the rhythm of the threats of antivax ”, tells to
20 Minutes
the consultant on RMC Info, in fact very publicized.
"It's inherent in being heard," he philosopher.
"It's the rope that awaits you"
This doctor, who does not have his tongue in his pocket and is used to stepping up to defend the interests of the Liberals, has settled in Fronton, in Haute-Garonne, since 1995.
And never received so many threats.
“A bullet in the head”, “it's the rope that awaits you”… At the beginning, it is by an anonymous letter that Jérôme Marty receives this kind of sweet word.
"Old fashioned", he slips.
Then, some people call on the office landline.
He records two of these verbal attacks on his cell phone.
To then file a complaint.
“We could have confused them,” he reveals.
Both times, we came across manipulated people suffering from psychic pathologies, who took
Hold up's
claims literally
.
Besides, I have no animosity towards them.
These two people received symbolic fines.
Virtual threats are no less explicit.
Every week, Jérôme Marty receives insults and death threats via Messenger and on Twitter.
“Every now and then I explain things, but I can't do it systematically.
I make these messages public, to show what we receive: "we will come and get you", "you will see when you are home".
But he considers himself happy ... Other colleagues have received photos of their homes with an arrow on their window.
Pharmacies have been tagged.
And many do not dare to talk about it.
“We must return to a sacralization of the blouse!
"
However, and this is why he continues to publicize this violence, the doctor firmly believes that it is essential to talk about this new phenomenon.
"We must put the scalpel in the abscess right away!"
If we remain silent, we risk having a fragile person who stabs a general practitioner.
It is important to remember that it is not nothing to threaten.
And that we face up to five years in prison.
We must return to a sacralization of the blouse!
We are not there to give violence and receive it.
We are caregivers.
If we start to trample on caregivers, nurses or doctors, it's because we've lost our values.
"
Despite everything, Jérôme Marty understands this animosity.
For three reasons.
First of all, the duration of this unprecedented crisis.
“We've only been talking about Covid for a year!
But we confuse the consequences and the causes of this crisis.
The word of doctors is put forward because it is a health crisis.
If it was a war, it would be the military ... Some end up saying to themselves: "it's because the doctors talk that we're confined".
Second reason: the scale of the crisis.
“Some people are very vulnerable.
Those who are losing everything, who are afraid for their job, who have seen their couple explode, need scapegoats.
They are served on a plate, especially by certain politicians who manipulate public opinion.
"
Finally, there is the social media effect.
If the aggressiveness and the lack of nuance did not wait for the Covid-19 to flourish on Twitter in particular, the last few months have been marked by infighting between doctors, in particular about Professor Raoult.
“There are walls that have fallen, regrets Jérôme Marty.
The function has been desecrated.
From there, since the caregivers are men and women like any other, we have seen a flood of insults and threats.
"
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No impact on the life of the practice
But all this remains very far from "real life".
Because nothing has changed in the routine of the general practitioner or in the life of his office.
Recently, however, he installed an alert system when he receives contentious comments on Twitter.
Of what genre ?
“If it was 1789, your head would be at the end of a pike”.
Not enough to scare him.
“Barking dog does not bite!” He reassures.
I'm not going to start looking behind me on the street or change the way I work!
"
When we google Dr. Jérôme Marty, the majority of the 77 comments clearly make you want to flee and nickname him the "doctor of TV shows".
But, far from being sullied by such attacks, he has no difficulty in filling his cabinet.
Including new patients who come from Montauban.
And the doctor concluded: “People know the difference.
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