Gérald Darmanin on Wednesday called on the prefects to strengthen surveillance in front of vaccination centers and pharmacies, targets of repeated malicious acts in full protest against the generalization of the health pass.
In a telegram, the Minister of the Interior calls on the prefects to mobilize police and gendarmes to strengthen the “surveillance of these establishments”.
"Mayors could usefully be made aware of the advisability of mobilizing their municipal police forces and their video protection devices on the subject," he adds.
Degradation and threats
Since July 12, 22 acts of degradation in screening centers, vaccination and pharmacies have been identified by the Ministry of the Interior.
59 acts of threats against elected officials were also recorded.
On the night of July 16 to 17, in Lans-en-Vercors (Isère), the vaccination center installed in the municipal village hall was flooded with a fire hose, damaging the premises and equipment. IT and medical.
Inscriptions ("RNA = GMO", "death", "new genocide vaccine", "assassin", "1940", cross of Lorraine) were found on the walls.
Context of "anti-health pass protest"
On Sunday, a student working at the Toulouse vaccinodrome found in the post-vaccination waiting room "a piece of paper on which was written" one day, all that will jump "", according to the Toulouse town hall.
A complaint was lodged by the owner of the Samu and responsible for the vaccination center.
These acts are "generally committed independently of the demonstrations", underlines the telegram, but are part of the context of "the protest against health pass observed since mid-July".
Last Saturday, some 237,000 people marched in France, twice as many as on July 17 during the first weekend of mobilization.
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