He struggles to find the words to describe his sadness.
Of his doctor's office, only the walls remain.
The interior has been ransacked, vandalized with almost sadistic care.
Claude Fossé, one of the last three doctors in the Merisiers district, in Mantes-la-Ville (Yvelines), is disgusted: strangers attacked his office, which has been established for 45 years in the heart of this popular city.
“All for nothing.
There is nothing to steal in my office, laments, moved, the 74-year-old practitioner.
I discovered this carnage Monday night.
I exercise on Tuesday and I come the day before to prepare the premises.
When I arrived, I saw the door open, the mail outside, I understood immediately.
I felt immense disappointment.
They even dumped chemicals to hide the DNA fingerprints.
"
Mantes-la-Ville (Yvelines), Monday, May 24, 2021. Dr Fossé's office was forced into crowds and then completely ransacked.
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Inside, shards of glass everywhere litter the ground.
A cupboard was overturned, papers thrown on the floor, and the small refrigerator door inexplicably left open.
The front door was forced open with a crowbar.
He put a note on it to announce the temporary transfer of his activity to the two other neighboring doctors.
But eventually, it won't go anywhere.
Upset, Claude Fossé plans to stop his activity for good, finally listening to his relatives who have been advising him to retire for several years.
"Too bad, I'm going to have a good time and think about myself a bit," he explains.
It's unfortunate, but people will have to do without me.
I no longer have the strength.
Basta!
"
His patients will wait months before finding a niche
After a busy career, the septuagenarian had reduced his activity in recent years, devoting himself mainly to more administrative medicine.
It issued medical certificates for drivers who retook their driving license or for transport professionals.
It also provided occupational medicine for all employees hired in the public service.
Should we seek among them the author of the facts?
" I do not see.
I do not remember a tension with someone, he confides, specifying that all these patients will now have to go elsewhere.
They will wait three or four months before finding a niche, fears Claude Fossé.
It's sad for them, but I can't anymore.
"
“How do you want to attract doctors here?
"
This professional had also invested, in recent weeks, in anti-Covid vaccination.
He worked at the vaccination center of Mantes-la-Jolie.
But always, he returned to his little study in the Place des Merisiers, between the towers and the mosque, where thousands of inhabitants had passed through his hands.
A place full of stories silenced by medical secrecy, where stubborn links were forged.
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The family doctor came back stubbornly, faithful, even when after being elected mayor of the very chic town of Courgent, between 2001 and 2014, a few kilometers away. “Working here was a choice. I adored my patient and I had continued to be of service to people, to continue to see people, ”says Claude Fossé, who also chaired the medical center on call, an establishment supposed to replace the emergencies of the Mantes hospital. la-Jolie, saturated.
"Claude is a committed doctor, driven by his profession," confides Patrick Lefoulon, one of the last three professionals living in Les Merisiers, who agreed to host him. He's branded and will definitely go. Me too, shortly, when I reach retirement age. But afterwards, who to replace us? How do you want to attract doctors here, with what just happened? Working in a working-class neighborhood is a vocation. Those who ransacked his office will penalize thousands of people for a long time to come. "