"Faced with an escalation of violence against pharmacies and professionals working there", the actors of the profession "strongly condemn these acts" and call Tuesday "for appeasement".

A "sudden outburst of violence was expressed against pharmacists taken to task, insulted, whose barnums were vandalized or even a pharmacy burned", denounce in a joint statement the National Order of Pharmacists and the FSPF unions (Federation of Pharmaceutical Syndicates of France), USPO (Union of Unions of Pharmacists of Officine) and ANEPF (National Association of Pharmacy Students of France).

"If the fears with regard to the vaccine and the deprivation of liberty can be expressed, the health professions, fully committed since the start of the epidemic to best protect the French, must in no case bear the costs of such acts, shocking and intolerable.

Nothing can justify such acts ”, add the professionals who“ strongly condemn these acts of violence and call with one voice for the respect of all health professionals ”.

"Acts of violence and intimidation"

"Acts of violence and intimidation" "targeting doctors, pharmacists, other health professionals, and staff of establishments or vaccination centers", were also condemned Tuesday "with the greatest firmness" by the Order of Physicians which "hopes that the perpetrators of such facts will be severely punished by the authorities".

Asked by AFP on possible preventive measures to protect pharmacies at the time of the next demonstrations, the Minister of the Interior assured that "an attention can be brought by the prefect when the pharmacies are found on the way of the procession ".

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