Since the beginning of the confinement, everyone will have noticed, banners and other banners have appeared on windows or in the countryside. Some criticize the policy of the executive, others call to stay at home. Finally, many messages express support for the nursing staff.
Somewhere in Haute-Garonne: "solidarity with caregivers" LIONEL BONAVENTURE / AFP
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While at 8 p.m. the French still continue (probably with less enthusiasm on certain evenings) to encourage caregivers at their windows, here is a selection of these messages of support.
Remember that since the start of the epidemic, at least 25 healthcare professionals have died from Covid-19 in France.
In Nice: “white blouse supporters” VALERY HACHE / AFP
If many new patients continue to present themselves in hospitals, with 1,346 people admitted in 24 hours for Covid-19, the overall number of hospitalized patients continues to decrease, which started nine days ago: they are still 28,658, 561 fewer than Thursday.
In Fontenay-sous-Bois in the Val de Marne, a sober but efficient: "Thank you" CHARLES PLATIAU / REUTERS
In Neuilly-sur-Seine in the Hauts-de-Seine: "thank you caregivers". BENOIT TESSIER / REUTERS
The same practices have been observed elsewhere than in France.
Like here in England:
In central London. The NHS is the British health service. JOHN SIBLEY / REUTERS
Always in the heart of London. DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP
Or, here in Berlin:
You can read on this banner in front of a hospital: “Respect and recognition for everything you do. Thank you !" DAVID GANNON / AFP
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Beyond the caregivers, other messages are therefore more critical. " Thank you to the caregivers, shame on the leaders ": this banner hanging on Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) thus sums up the tone of thousands of other spontaneous messages displayed on the facades across France, which the unions have called to multiply for May 1st. On social networks, the collective "Confiné.es mais pas résigné.es", created by members of the "Invisible Fanfare", a group that accompanies various events, lists images of these banners.
Thursday, in Toulouse, a woman was briefly placed in police custody for having questioned on a sheet stretched in front of her house: "Macronavirus, when will the end?" LIONEL BONAVENTURE / AFP