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VIDEO. "We are going to put a bullet in your head": attacked by antivax, two doctors confide

2021-09-18T09:13:43.669Z


In recent months, many health professionals concerned by vaccination have received insults and death threats. Two doctors


"We know where you live", "we are going to hang you".

In recent months, threats have proliferated on social networks, on the phone or in the mail that Dr Jérôme Marty receives.

At the rate of several hundred a day.

Faced with the escalation of insults, this general practitioner was forced to hire a bodyguard.

"It's completely crazy," he breathes.

To read also "We ask the State to protect us": the call of doctors to ensure the safety of caregivers who have become "targets"

Too expensive a solution for Dr Julia Fidry. Responsible for a vaccination center, she was struck last March by the husband of a patient unhappy with the vaccine she had been assigned. The individual was immediately apprehended by the gendarmes, posted in the building since his break-in a month earlier. Since then, Julia Fidry's number has been classified in the priority calls of the police. “We were applauded and now we are booed. Today, insults and lack of respect are daily, ”she testifies.

Source: leparis

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