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Wearing a mask: when enforcing the rule generates violent reactions

2020-08-05T17:40:30.984Z


The altercations around this protective device have been increasing for several weeks, especially in public transport.


Will train controllers, bus drivers, store managers or metro passengers still dare to demand that the mask wearing instructions be respected? Not a day or so without an assault being reported, in France, for the sake of a mask. Especially in public transport.

After the Bayonne Tram'bus driver, massacred on July 5 by passengers who he had asked to wear a mask and present their ticket, it was the customer of a laundromat who was left for dead, in a pool of blood, this Sunday, in Soisy-sous-Montmorency, in Val-d'Oise. He filed a complaint for "aggravated violence" after being severely beaten by four individuals, one of whom he had simply pointed out that he had to put on a mask. "We expect to die from Covid 19 , said this father to France 3, but not die because, precisely, we do not want to die from Covid ..."

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Source: lefigaro

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