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Covid-19: the gendarmerie mobilized for the protection of health actors

2020-05-04T18:17:39.225Z


Thefts, threats, scams and trafficking… In one month, as part of the “Hy-gie” operation, the gendarmes identified at least 335 attacks targeting the front line professions.


Exposed in the epidemic crisis which paralyzes the country, the health ecosystem has become a real hunting ground for all delinquent fauna.

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Theft of masks and gowns in the cars of nurses and doctors identified by their caduceus, burglaries and swindles of pharmacies having ordered batches of masks and hydroalcoholic gel, cyberattacks of care centers, sales in shambles of fake chloroquine or Screening tests, assaults by carers ... To protect a whole medical and paramedical chain under tension and the object of lust, the national gendarmerie launched across the country a vast operation, as it did in December 2019 for the agricultural world with the "Demeter" cell.

Christened this time "Hy-gie", in reference to the Greek goddess of health and hygiene, it aims to identify risks and adapt a response to them. As part of a global approach, we mobilize all of the prevention capacities,

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Source: lefigaro

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