According to the images broadcast by the local chain Guadeloupe the 1st, the protesters have invaded the hemicycle by singing. “No to the vaccine obligation! No to the sanitary pass”, could be read on a banner.
Le Monde with AFP
The mobilization against the sanitary pass does not fall into Guadeloupe. Protesters of the healthcare collective burst Thursday, December 23 in the hemicycle of the Regional Council of Guadeloupe in Lower Lower, by breaking windows and other objects, depending on the proceedings.
“The collective broke the entrance portal and the lobby door, and they entered the hemicycle while a plenary ended”, according to a communication officer of the region. She added that the elected officials had “had time to leave the hemicycle” and that the president of the region, Ary Chalus, “closed in his office”.
In Guadeloupe, resistance to vaccination is strong. The archipelago was affected in November by a movement of dispute, sometimes violent, born of the opposition to the obligation of caregivers and firefighters to vaccinate against CVIV-19. Larger social demands have emerged subsequently. This challenge is conducted by a collective of organizations, including union and citizens, very claimant.
Events in several places
The negotiations that should begin to resolve this crisis have aborted in mid-December and have not taken over after the elected representatives have left the negotiating table on the grounds that the main demand of the collective – return to the immunization obligation – raised the competences of the State, not theirs. To satisfy the other points of claim, they have formulated their proposals on social and family issues on a website.
This weekend, demonstrations took place in several places on the island. Saturday, the protesters have for several hours blocked access to the largest shopping center of the island, crowded, a few days before Christmas, blocking people inside.
A fire was then declared in the hypermarket. After a complaint deposit of the institution’s management, the survey will determine “if the two facts are linked,” said Pointe-à-Pitre’s parquet.
Violence are also regularly committed in Pointe-à-Pitre University Hunt, against management but also non-suspended caregivers. In a previous intrusion at the end of October at the headquarters of the region, protesters had replaced the French flag on the prefecture by the independence flag of Guadeloupe.