A "significant increase in attacks" has been noticed by the Order of Pharmacists in pharmacies since the beginning of the year.
This "climate of insecurity" is largely due to the coronavirus epidemic and in particular the confinements.
Île-de-France is the most affected region.
The Order of Pharmacists reported on Tuesday a "significant increase in attacks" in pharmacies since the beginning of the year, warning in passing about the "climate of insecurity" in medical biology laboratories.
The number of reported facts has almost doubled: 523 in eleven months (from January to November), against 303 for the whole of 2019, specifies the Order of Pharmacists in a press release.
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An increase attributed to the "unprecedented epidemic context" and to "the general anxiety of the population, exacerbated during the first confinement".
This period from March to May also concentrates a third of attacks, mainly insults, but thefts also "exploded" in the spring, masks and hydroalcoholic gel being sometimes targeted, even if "cash remains the first pattern".
"A marked increase in attacks, insults and threats"
Ile-de-France is by far "the most affected region", ahead of Hauts-de-France and Occitanie, while the situation in Mayotte is considered "very worrying".
The Order is also worried about the medical biology laboratories, whose rare declarations "do not allow an account of the reality on the ground", marked by "a clear increase in attacks, insults and threats" linked to the lines of waiting for Covid-19 testing.