The crisis does not end in Guadeloupe ... The offices of the management of the hospital in Guadeloupe have been besieged by anti-ax activists and the state of health emergency declared on the island due to the explosion of number of Covid cases. 

The director of the CHU attacked

They are about fifty to have taken position Tuesday at the end of the morning in front of the administrative building of the CHU, blocking entries and exits.

The director of the CHU of Guadeloupe Gérard Cotellon and his two assistants had to be exfiltrated by the police, not without receiving "blows, insults and urine jets", according to their account.

Since July 17, activists against the vaccine obligation and the health pass have been mobilizing every weekend in Guadeloupe.

The crisis reached its paroxysm at the end of November when the collective of organizations "in struggle" called for a general mobilization which resulted in roadblocks and the blocking for three weeks of traffic in many points of the Isle.

The fight against the vaccine obligation now only concerns certain demonstrators "determined to go to the end", according to the leaders of the various organizations, and who maintain sporadic meetings and actions.

A group of organizations, including trade unions and citizens, mostly opposed to the obligation to vaccinate against Covid-19 for nursing staff and firefighters had thus occupied the hemicycle of the Regional Council of Guadeloupe for almost 24 hours at the end of December, after intruding in the middle of the plenary session.

Fifth wave of the Covid

The political class and the local authorities unanimously condemned the violence on Tuesday.

Government spokesman Gabriel Attal expressed Wednesday at the end of the Council of Ministers "all (his) solidarity" with the director of the CHU, who was "beaten, kidnapped by anti-ax activists".

"It is shameful, it is revolting, it is scandalous, and it is inadmissible in the Republic", he added.

The director general of the ARS Valérie Denux, she blasted in a press release this violence, indicating that "people who have acted in this way can no longer qualify as health professionals".

"The authors must be identified, found and condemned, just like their sponsors," wrote the parliamentarians of Guadeloupe in a joint statement.

"How can we, in the Republic, tolerate or at least allow violence to be committed against personnel whose only mission is to preserve and save lives?", They were indignant, refusing "the taking of the hostage of the country".

"These abuses, unworthy, are all the more worrying and irresponsible in a context where Guadeloupe is entering a fifth wave of the very worrying Covid", wrote in a joint statement the elected officials of Guadeloupe, indicating to join "to the indignation and to the dissatisfaction of the entire hospital community ”.

Explosion of contaminations

Due to the local explosion of Covid 19 contaminations, the government decided to place Guadeloupe, as well as the Northern Islands, in a state of health emergency, Wednesday in the Council of Ministers.

According to the epidemiological bulletin of December 29, which was to be updated Wednesday evening (local time), the island recorded more than 2,000 new positive cases for Covid the last week of December, against around 550 the previous week.

The Omicron variant represented 45% of the samples, according to the same source.

Less than one in two Guadeloupeans vaccinated

In Guadeloupe, resistance to vaccination is still strong, according to figures from the ARS: less than 50% of the population has received at least one dose of vaccine.

On the other hand, vaccination rates among people subject to compulsory vaccination reach more than 95%.

Thus, "96% of CHU staff comply with the vaccination obligation," says one at the hospital.

However, no attempt at negotiation could succeed between elected officials, the State and the mobilized collective.

For now, the collective announces new gatherings and meetings to come.

President Emmanuel Macron, interviewed by the daily

Le Parisien

, triggered the controversy on Tuesday by declaring that he "really wants to piss off" the unvaccinated.

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