A prefectural decree will ban posters hostile to vaccination against Covid-19 which have flourished in Toulouse in recent weeks on several billboards, announced the Secretary of State in charge of Citizenship on Friday.
“Alert to the anti-vaccination poster campaign in progress in Toulouse, I asked the prefect to use the appropriate legal remedies to put an end to it”, indicates Sonia Backes on her Twitter account.
“A prohibition order will be taken, and a report sent to the Public Prosecutor”, she specifies.
Alerted to the current anti-vaccination poster campaign in Toulouse, I asked the prefect to use the appropriate legal channels to put an end to it.
A prohibition order will be taken, and a report sent to the Public Prosecutor.
Stop misinformation!
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—Sonia Backes (@SoniaBackes) August 19, 2022
On panels located on the grounds of several individuals in Toulouse, large posters denouncing supposed harmful side effects of vaccination against Covid have been placed.
A “campaign” organized by opponents of vaccines
“1 cardiovascular accident for 100 injections: the health of our children is better than experimental vaccines”, can we read on this panel planted in the garden of a private residence in the Cocus district in the north of the city.
The message displayed on the panels is accompanied by a link to a European database on the adverse effects of vaccines against Covid-19.
The webpage states, however, that "the information presented on this website does not reflect any confirmation of a potential link between the drug and the observed effect(s)."
This veritable “advertising campaign” is the work of the self-proclaimed “Independent Scientific Council”, of “Réinfo Covid” and “Réinfo Libertés”, collectives made up of health professionals opposed to vaccination.
On Wednesday, the prefecture of Haute-Garonne declared that it had taken up the case in the company of ARS Occitanie and the departmental council of the order of doctors in the department.