Gérard Cottelon and his two deputies say they have been molestres. “We have come to demand the money we need,” explained one of the protesters, in references to the wages of suspended agents after their refusal to comply with the immunization obligation.
Le Monde with AFP
The administrative building of Guadeloupe Chu in Pointe-à-Pitre, theater of tensions around the question of the immunization obligation of the caregivers, was besieged, Tuesday, January 4, and the direction “sequestered” in its offices before To be finally “exfiltered” by the police, explained to the France-Presse agency (AFP) the Chief Executive Officer, Gérard Cotellon.
“I was extracted with a punch in the ribs and a huge shot on the head, I lost consciousness for ten seconds I think,” Cotellon said. His deputy, Cédric Zolezzi, also indicated to have been molesté. “I was torn my shirt, I received from the urine on me while I ran to a police car,” he said, who declares himself “shocked”. Management has announced its intention to file a complaint.
If this exfiltration did not give rise to arrests, it was like a “rugby melee” according to a police source, while the protesters were “rather calm” throughout the day.
95% of vaccinated staff
“We came to demand the money we needed,” said AFP Gaby Keyboard, former secretary of the health branch of the union UGTG, present on the scene with the protesters. The latter claim the payment of wages of suspended agents, after their refusal to comply with the vaccination obligation.
The protesters left the places at the beginning of the evening. This is not the first time these administrative premises are targeted as part of this mobilization. End 2021, several degradations had already taken place.
According to the CHU, which is preparing for an influx of patients because of the resurgence of the CIVID-19 epidemic, 95% of the staff “meet the immunization obligation”.