The occupants, however, promise new actions after Christmas, while the state excluded any negotiation that would aim to “repeal a law of the Republic”.
Le Monde with AFP
The mobilization against the sanitary pass will resume after Christmas in Guadeloupe. Sanitary antipool protesters, who had been occupying the Regional Council of Guadeloupe since Thursday, left the scene on Friday, December 24 at the beginning of the afternoon of their own. However, they promise new actions after Christmas, while the state excluded any negotiation that would aim to “repeal a law of the Republic”.
These protesters – a collective of organizations, including trade unions and citizens, mainly opposed to the immunization obligation against CVIV-19 for caregivers and firefighters – have taken intrusion Thursday at midday in the hemicycle Thursday of the Regional Council of Guadeloupe, in the full plenary session.
The elected representatives and the president of the region, Ary Chalus, a close to Emmanuel Macron, had been able to leave the hemicycle before. This intrusion has been described by the Regional Executive of Act of “Unpublished Violence”.
The collective, a part of which spent the night on the spot, asked that the state join the negotiating table, interrupted for two weeks, to discuss the problems behind the social crisis, sometimes violent, who has been shaking the Guadeloupe since the beginning of November, with in the first place the vaccine obligation.
A ground action scheduled Thursday
After several hours of discussions in the haemicycle between members of the collective, they decided on Friday at midday folding luggage. “We will buy our yam, pudding, pig [for the traditional Christmas meal] and we will find our comrades, among others, on the picket of the Basse-Terre Hospital Center,” said the Agence France- Press (AFP) Elie Domota, LKP leader – which brings together about fifty unions and associations, including the powerful general union of Guadeloupe workers (UGTG).
The unionist stated that the collective would “meet Monday” but already “a meeting is Acté Tuesday and Wednesday” as well as “a field action Thursday certainly with the same configuration” as Thursday. “We disperse on several strike pickets,” said Gaby Keyboard, a union of the GMU Health Branch at AFP.
The region had counted Thursday “more than a hundred people” in the hemicycle, and “more than 400 people” in total in the premises, where furniture was “destroyed”. This intrusion was sentenced by the whole of the political class of Guadeloupe, and by political officials of the hexagon. “No cause justifies violence!”, In particular, reacted the candidate of the Republicans to the presidential election, Valérie Pécresse.
Refractors to the immunization obligation soon “hanging”
In Guadeloupe, where a first case of Omicron variant was detected Saturday and where the fourth wave of Covid-19 did more than 800 dead, the resistance to vaccination is strong. Negotiations designed to end the crisis shot two weeks ago after the signing of a “method agreement” by local elected representatives and the collective but not by the state, absent from the process.
The Ministry of Overseas has, for its part, announced three days ago that the health workers of the Caribbean for the immunization obligation would be “suspended” on December 31 and could “move towards a new business “via a” reconversion cell “.
Events have already happened last weekend. Access to the largest shopping center was blocked several hours on Saturday, and a fire was then stated in the hypermarket.