Covid-19 in France: many doctors threatened with death by anti-vaccines
France is planning a vaccination campaign for the general public between April and June against Covid-19, after a first phase reserved for the most vulnerable people.
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As the vaccination campaign approaches in France, doctors are increasingly victims of threats, especially on social networks.
A situation denounced by the UFML union, French Union for Free Medicine, to alert and encourage doctors to report if they are victims.
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As the Covid-19 vaccination campaign approaches, doctors are reporting increasingly pressing and violent threats, as evidenced by Dr Jérôme Marty, president of the UFML union: “
We were seized by several doctors who have actually received threats in different forms and from different channels, - I myself have received them too - which generally emanate from the somewhat conspiratorial or negationist movement, anti-masks and anti-vaccines and which can go even death threats.
Which is not unacceptable.
Threats saying that I will be hanged or that my life will be killed, as far as I'm concerned.
And then other doctors received threats emanating from structures that can be found on the internet where they are asked to stop, not to start vaccination because at that time they would put themselves out- the law and that they would be prosecuted.
Things like that which are not admissible in the period we are living and which are not admissible continuously either.
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At the moment, a few dozen doctors have reported such threats.
The UFML invites all health professionals who are victims of these acts to file a complaint and to seize the medical order as well as their respective unions.
Why is the pressure mounting on doctors?
The virus has been installed for twelve months now, so the conspiratorial drifts have had time to develop [...] The vaccine has also become a political gesture.
You are told that if you take the vaccine you are supporting the government.
You are told that you are going to kill people because there is an international plot to eradicate a whole part of the population.
Jérôme Marty, general practitioner and president of the UFM union
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