Europe 1 with AFP 11:12 a.m., August 19, 2022

A prefectural decree will ban posters hostile to vaccination against Covid-19 which have flourished in Toulouse in recent weeks on several billboards, announced the Secretary of State in charge of Citizenship on Friday.

"Alert to the current anti-vaccination poster campaign in Toulouse, I asked the prefect to use the appropriate legal remedies to put an end to it", indicates Sonia Backes on her Twitter account.

A prefectural decree will ban posters hostile to vaccination against Covid-19 which have flourished in Toulouse in recent weeks on several billboards, announced the Secretary of State in charge of Citizenship on Friday.

"Alert to the current anti-vaccination poster campaign in Toulouse, I asked the prefect to use the appropriate legal remedies to put an end to it", indicates Sonia Backes on her Twitter account.

Alerted to the current anti-vaccination poster campaign in Toulouse, I asked the prefect to use the appropriate legal channels to put an end to it.

A prohibition order will be taken, and a report sent to the Public Prosecutor.

Stop misinformation!

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—Sonia Backes (@SoniaBackes) August 19, 2022

"A report will be sent to the public prosecutor"

On panels located on the grounds of several individuals in Toulouse, large posters denouncing supposed harmful side effects of vaccination against Covid have been placed.

On Wednesday, the prefecture of Haute-Garonne declared that it had taken up the case in the company of ARS Occitanie and the departmental council of the order of doctors in the department.

"A prohibition order will be taken, and a report sent to the public prosecutor", specifies Sonia Backes on this subject.