The proposal by two experts on French television to use Africa as a testing laboratory for a treatment against coronavirus has generated enormous controversy that has raised the voice of the great legends of African football. "They want to use us as guinea pigs," criticized Didier Drogba. Samuel Eto'o was more direct: "Sons of a bitch. Assassins."
In the video, initially shared by Demba Ba, you can see how Jean-Paul Mira, head of the ICU of the Cochin Hospital in Paris, and Camille Locht, director of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, propose to test in Africa the effectiveness against the BCG vaccine coronavirus (used for tuberculosis).
"We could do this study in Africa, where there are no masks, no resuscitation, a bit like when certain AIDS treatments were once tried on prostitutes because we knew they were highly exposed and were not protecting themselves," says Mira, with who Locht agrees.
Demba Ba shared the video along with the following message: "Welcome to the West, where the white man believes himself so superior that racism and weakness become banality. TIME TO GET UP." Eto'o, with whom he came to share a wardrobe at Chelsea, showed his outrage in a couple of messages. "Assassins". Motherfuckers.
Ivorian Didier Drogba also regretted the words of those two experts on French LCI television. "It is inconceivable that we have to keep saying it: Africa is not a testing laboratory. I want to denounce these false and above all deeply racist demeaning words," he writes. "Don't take the African people like guinea pigs!"
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