On each road in Guadeloupe, in each district, barricades are erected.
Initially the movement was against the obligation to vaccinate caregivers, now the demands are multiple - social, economic and health.
The ranks of sympathizers are growing and residents are installing tree trunks or household appliances on the roads to block the archipelago.
The lack of freedom of movement exasperates or worries some inhabitants of the island, when the distribution of gasoline begins to be rationed.
From our correspondent in Le Gosier,
Dams everywhere in Guadeloupe. On the main roads. On the secondaries. Drawn up by demonstrators from trade unions mobilized against compulsory vaccination. Erected by nursing staff or firefighters against the sanitary pass. From now on, it is local residents or the youngest who install them, while the demands have become multiple. They are social, economic and health. This Tuesday, Guadeloupe is barricaded on all sides, depriving the population of freedom and endangering the health of the most vulnerable.
These roadblocks, sometimes manned by demonstrators, take several forms. They are sometimes made up of bins and rubbish that are often set ablaze. Fallen tree trunks on the pavement. Household appliances or the carcasses of cars towed and then set on fire. Upstream, nails and bits of glass can also litter the ground. And these blockages put Teddy on edge. Living in the town of Sainte-Anne, this painter is forced to work despite the almost impossible traffic conditions: “I left home at 2:30 am, I arrived at my client's house at 4:39 am. I have just finished, I must go home, I cannot go through Pliane or Mare-Gaillard either. "
After having passed a first roadblock allowing the circulation of cars, Eddy finds himself stuck 100 meters further on at the entrance to the Mara-Gaillard district, in Le Gosier, by tree branches and a washing machine.
“They just did it!
», He underlines while taking photos to show his dismay to his boss.
“This morning, I went through the deep sea and it was blocked, finally the main road was free.
I arrived in Pointe-à-Pitre and over there, it's Beirut!
".
If Eddy is one of the inhabitants of the movement, he is "not in agreement with this kind of process".
“They penalize us Guadeloupeans!
It is neither Macron nor Castex that they are hurting, ”explains the painter.
"We are taken hostage"
Arrived at this roadblock, many motorists turn around and seek another path by which to pass. Antoine found an alternative. “The roads are blocked so I take my bike to do what I have to do. He "understands and approves this movement" and takes his pain patiently. “We are made to swallow snakes, we are forced to be vaccinated. Everyone is free to have their own body, we are penalized because we are not vaccinated. This goes beyond sanitary, it is quite simply political, estimates this electrician. This situation is complicated for everyone but was predictable. "
This is also the opinion of Henri, emergency doctor at the CHU de Guadeloupe and inhabitant of the district: “I saw this movement coming all the more so since in the hospital we have been really bothered for a while now. "With his partner, it was on foot that they came" to see if it was unlocked because we have to go to work casually, "explains Nathalie. And to add: “Once again, it is the population which suffers, we are taken hostage and we have no freedom, we cannot leave our home. If something happens to us there at a moment T or to our family, we cannot intervene. "
And the urgency, Henri is well aware of it: “I am terrified by this.
We tell ourselves that there are people who are going to die for lack of dialysis.
Earlier the head of the Samu told me that a vehicle had not been able to pass a roadblock for a 57-year-old man who was having a cardiac arrest.
It's just distressing!
We have a total deprivation of liberty for the liberty of some who are also a minority ”.
Limited gasoline distribution
In Mare-Gaillard, the dams follow one another. It is one of the most eventful points of the archipelago. Nathalie tried to negotiate a passage with one of her neighbors installing a dam. He was sympathetic "but another person can arrive and everything changes," she says. Moreover, Nathalie would not risk venturing on the heights of Mare-Gaillard because "there, it is not the same mentality, people can be armed and aggressive". On these famous heights, Henri affirms that dams are simply impassable on foot. What worries him because it is on this side that his children live with their mother. And for now, he doesn't see how he could get them back.
After the announcements made by the Prime Minister, the tension is far from being appeased.
The strikers seem neither convinced nor satisfied by the remarks made by Jean Castex.
The night from Monday to Tuesday was still rough.
Pointe-à-Pitre and Basse-Terre have experienced new clashes between the police and sometimes armed young people.
A young man is said to have died in Trois-Rivières but the reasons for his death are not yet known.
As for the blockages, they continue on Tuesday and the distribution of gasoline is limited to 20 liters for light and heavy vehicles.
Only public service, law enforcement and emergency vehicles are not fuel restricted.
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