It is a disaster scenario that the boss of the Modem fears.

François Bayrou expressed on Sunday his "fear" of a variant of the Covid which would strike young children and pleaded for compulsory vaccination for the entire population.

"I live with an obsession with this virus, it is that one day a mutation will cause the virus to become extremely harmful for children", warned the High Commissioner for Planning in the Grand Jury RTL / LCI / Le Figaro.

"Vaccination is the only barrier against what hangs in our face"

"If it affected children, and young children, then I think we would be faced with waves that would call into question the very stability of society," he worried. "To guard against mutations, we have to stop the spread of the virus and we can only stop the spread by vaccination," he added. "Vaccination is the only barrier against what hangs in our face, what threatens to happen, that there is a fourth wave, why not a fifth wave," Bayrou insisted.

"I always thought that it would end with the collective decision to make vaccination compulsory, like the eleven vaccinations that are given to the baby at birth," argued the mayor of Pau.

"I do not know of any important decisions which did not provoke a movement of hostility but the greatness, the responsibility of a leader, is to say:" Listen, in conscience, I consulted, worked, reflected on this subject, in conscience, I tell you that this is what must be done "", pleaded the boss of the Modem.

"An unreasonable fear" of the vaccine

“Let's start with persuasion and incitement, before thinking about repression,” he added, however.

I know people of very good faith who are afraid of being vaccinated, I think this fear is irrational ”.

"We will not force the French to be vaccinated, vaccination does not have to be compulsory in the general population," Health Minister Olivier Véran said on Friday.

Prime Minister Jean Castex is to receive from Monday the leaders of Parliament and local elected officials to address, among other things, the issue of the obligation to vaccinate caregivers.

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