Caroline Baudry, edited by Solène Delinger 2:13 p.m., January 05, 2022
The administrative building of the Guadeloupe University Hospital in Pointe-à-Pitre, the scene of tensions around the issue of the compulsory vaccination of caregivers, was besieged by anti-ax activists on Tuesday, January 4.
The management was "sequestered" in its offices before being finally "exfiltrated".
The state of health emergency has also just been declared in Guadeloupe.
Guadeloupe facing the Omicron wave and the thorny issue of vaccination.
While the state of health emergency has just been declared in this overseas territory, the Pointe-à-Pitre CHU was the scene of tensions on Tuesday around the vaccination obligation.
The management was sequestered in its offices before being finally "exfiltrated".
Europe 1 returns to these scenes of violence.
Torn shirt
It all started Tuesday morning when about fifty demonstrators took up positions in front of an administrative building of the CHU to block access.
They demand the payment of salaries of unvaccinated agents suspended from their functions.
The management is sequestered in the offices, tells the director general, Gérard Cotellon, who must be exfiltrated by the police.
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On the images circulating on social networks, we see him go out escorted by the police, drowned in a melee of demonstrators, under the insults, projectiles and jets of water.
He was then violently struck and received several blows in the ribs and a blow to the head which made him lose consciousness for a few seconds.
His two agents are also exfiltrated.
One of them has his shirt ripped and then receives urine as he runs towards a police car, also targeted.
The management will file a complaint
No arrests have been made for the moment.
Management intends to file a complaint.
She strongly condemns these unspeakable excesses carried out by a handful of individuals in this establishment where 95% of the staff are vaccinated.