In the West Indies, the immunization obligation for caregivers sparks the anger of the unions, who require his withdrawal. This claim is the starting point for a general enamelled violence strike in the archipelago.
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Is the Guadeloupe on the verge of living a new large-scale social conflict like the one twelve years ago had paralyzed the department for forty-four days? The preceding 2009 is in all heads, both the atmosphere remains stretched in the archipelago, after an unlimited general strike week decreed, Monday, November 15, by a collective of trade union organizations that rejects the immunization obligation for caregivers.
After four days of demonstrations and blockages of roads, scenes of urban violence, occurred in the night from Thursday to Friday, pushed the government to announce the sending of 200 additional police and gendarmes to Guadeloupe in the next days. The rioters looted Pointe-à-Pitre jewelry and burned six buildings in the city center; Four of them were completely destroyed by the flames. Friday, life has been slowed in the department, many schools remaining closed, just like post offices and courts.
New curfew
In response to this outbreak of violence, Guadeloupe Prefecture set up a curfew briefing on Friday night, between 18 hours and 5 am. It must be maintained until Tuesday morning. One height, only five days after the lifting of the state of emergency sanitary – with a curfew – which was introduced on July 28 to stem the fourth wave of the CVIV-19 epidemic. The Prefect, Alexandre Rochattte, “must nevertheless take all the measures of organized destruction and the endanger of Guadeloupeans that no claim can not excuse,” says the prefecture.
The Intersyndical Liyannaj Kont Pwofitasyon (Collective Against Operation, LKP), which had already been illustrated during the 2009 conflict, is at the origin of the disengagements. The collective requires “the withdrawal of compulsory vaccination and the sanitary pass, or at least one derogation, as they did for chlordecone, by the way,” persew Jean-Marie Nomertin, Secretary General of the General Confederation of the Labor of the Labor. Guadeloupe (CGTG) and LKP member. Guadeloupean caregivers had certainly benefited from a stay to comply with the vaccine obligation during the three months of emergency, but this grace period is now complete.
Guadeloupe paid a very heavy tribute to the epidemic. In this 390,000 inhabitants, the mortality jumped 65% between the June 1 and November 8, 2021 compared to the same period of 2019, according to INSEE.
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