Saturday July 31, while numerous anti-health pass demonstrations are taking place throughout France, a video published by the newspaper
Midi Libre
begins to circulate, showing a pharmacist in Montpellier forced to fold his Covid-19 screening tent in the face of increasingly threatening demonstrators.
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In the video, the protesters can be seen insulting healthcare workers.
While some tear up posters from the tent, others even go so far as to write “
Mafia State
” on one of the posters.
Booed by the demonstrators, the pharmacist is also called a "
collaborator
" and "
murderer
".
Helped by pharmacy employees, he finally found himself forced to put away the Covid-19 screening tent.
On Twitter, several intellectuals and politicians reacted to this scene of violence.
The Minister of Health Olivier Véran thus denounced the words of the demonstrators, who insulted, "
all shame drunk
", a pharmacist who "
gets up despite fatigue
" to treat others.
Government spokesman Gabriel Attal applauded the work of pharmacists carried out during the summer, denouncing the “
intimidation
” and “
violence
” shown by the demonstrators. The writer Bernard-Henri Lévy for his part pointed out "
the worst yellow vests
" come "
in reinforcement of the sanitary pass
". In his tweet, the philosopher wonders: "
our 1930s may be starting today
".