The La Poste group donates 300,000 protective masks to the Interior Ministry, which is also awaiting delivery this weekend of an order for a million masks imported from China, we learned. from several sources, Friday.
"In the exceptional circumstances of our country, and out of concern for solidarity between major public operators, the Post Office is happy to immediately make available to the National Police and the gendarmerie, 300,000 protective masks (new, high filtration BFE> 98%) ”, writes N.2 of La Poste in a letter addressed to the Ministry of the Interior.
"The Post and the police - the police and the gendarmerie - each in their role, fulfill in this period missions of vital importance for our fellow citizens", adds this letter.
Place Beauvau is confronted with the anger of the police unions who castigate the management of the institution's stockpiles of masks and threaten to no longer carry out checks to enforce confinement.
According to the entourage of Christophe Castaner, the Ministry of the Interior has placed a direct order for a million masks which should be delivered in the weekend, from China.
Thursday evening, the minister, guest of a France 2 broadcast, also assured that 800,000 surgical masks had been delivered to the police, "in recent days". He was trying to respond to the emotion and the controversy aroused within the police ranks by the choice of the Ministry of the Interior to give his stock of 1.4 million FFP2 masks to healthcare workers, in application of government doctrine.
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If the police unions had not disputed the merits of the donation, they had however been concerned about the lack of means of protection to replace the said masks.
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