Toulouse (AFP)
A Covid-19 vaccination center near Toulouse was vandalized overnight and 500 doses were destroyed, we learned Tuesday from corroborating sources.
No registration or claim was observed on site, the mayor of Saint-Orens-de-Gameville, Dominique Faure, told AFP.
"This is classic vandalism: tables and chairs were broken as well as two computer screens," she said, adding that the alarm system with which the associative room has been transformed into a vaccination had not worked.
Five hundred doses of vaccine were also destroyed on the spot, according to a source close to the investigation.
A complaint was lodged by the town hall of the town and the investigation is entrusted to the research section of the Toulouse gendarmerie and the Villefranche-de-Lauragais research brigade, the Toulouse prosecutor's office told AFP. .
The vaccination center should resume its activities "before the end of the week", hopes Ms. Faure.
These acts of vandalism occur in a context of strong mobilization against the "health dictatorship" set up by the government, according to opponents of the health pass and the compulsory vaccination of caregivers.
Demonstration against the health pass and compulsory vaccination of caregivers on August 14, 2021 in Nantes Sebastien SALOM-GOMIS AFP / Archives
Several tens of thousands of people have been demonstrating every Saturday for the past five weeks.
At the beginning of August, the premises of the Order of Nurses in Toulouse had been vandalized, in particular with anti-health pass tags.
In July, an arson destroyed a tent hosting a vaccination center in Urrugne (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) and another had been vandalized in Lans-en-Vercors (Isère), with anti-vaccine inscriptions tagged on the building.
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