Anti-vaccination pass demonstrators in Guadeloupe displayed their "determination to go all the way" on Tuesday during a press conference in front of the Pointe-à-Pitre University Hospital.
"Resisting oppression is a natural right, and that is what we demonstrate, whatever the contempt we face", launched Gaby Clavier, trade unionist of the UGTG, displaying a "determination to go to the end" and calling for the mobilization to be strengthened in "a permanent movement".
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A dozen speakers followed one another to castigate "the absence of dialogue and negotiation", ensuring that their legitimacy was based on the many Guadeloupeans who refused to be vaccinated.
Repression to "break the movement"
The demonstrators accuse the government of wanting to "discredit trade union action and demonize it", in the words of Maïté Hubert M'Toumo, secretary general of the UGTG, referring to the revelations of the public prosecutor of Pointe-à- Pitre, according to which the urban violence of Guadeloupe would have been planned by "gangs".
"They incriminate young people, on science fiction stories, stories to sleep tall, to get out of the heads of Guadeloupeans the reality of the country", she lambasted, promising another press conference with "the lawyers and the families of young people” implicated for criminal association in particular.
"It's repression to break the movement", she launched, before denouncing "manipulations" of official figures on hospital tension.
Barely more than 50% of those over 12 vaccinated
For several months, the collective has been beating the pavement to protest mainly against the obligation to vaccinate caregivers, and the imposition of the health pass, now vaccinated, on the island of Guadeloupe, although it does not yet apply on the island, after an amendment tabled by the deputy Justine Benin.
On Sunday, "skin groups", often from cultural associations who sometimes come to punctuate the collective demonstrations with the sound of the drum, had "tumbled" into the streets of Pointe-à-Pitre, despite the ban on gatherings. by prefectural decree.
In Guadeloupe, the compliance rate of personnel required to be vaccinated is around 95%, according to the Regional Health Agency.
The ARS also indicates that the vaccination rate is struggling to exceed 50%, with, as of January 18, 44% of those over 12 having received a first injection and 41% having received two doses.
