A vaccination center in Saint-Orens-de-Gameville, near Toulouse, was degraded overnight from Monday to Tuesday and 500 doses of vaccine were destroyed.
A complaint was lodged by the town hall and an investigation was opened.
A Covid-19 vaccination center near Toulouse was vandalized overnight and 500 doses were destroyed, corroborating sources said on Tuesday. No registration or claim was observed on site, said the mayor of Saint-Orens-de-Gameville, Dominique Faure. "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, said the Toulouse prosecutor's office.
The vaccination center should resume its activities "before the end of the week", hopes Dominque Faure.
Strengthen surveillance
Gérald Darmanin "strongly condemns" these degradations, said the Ministry of the Interior. On August 11, he had already called on the prefects to strengthen the "surveillance" of vaccination centers and pharmacies, targets of repeated malicious acts in the midst of protest against the generalization of the health pass. Several tens of thousands of people have been demonstrating every Saturday for the past five weeks against what they consider to be a "health dictatorship".
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.