At the Caen Memorial, employees treated as "collaborators" when they control the health pass

The health pass does not go everywhere. Indispensable pocket companion for audiences who would like to access places of culture since July 21, sesame arouses the discontent of part of the population. However, the government is no longer the only player in the sights of opponents of the health pass, whose resentment extends to the staff responsible for checking these vaccine documents. At the Caen Memorial, site employees have been violently attacked and insulted for two weeks by some individuals who have called them

. Behavior

, but

, regretted Tuesday the management of the establishment.

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“It has been released several times,”

explained in an interview with France Bleu Stéphane Grimaldi, who has headed the Memorial for sixteen years.

If he recognizes and understands that there may be

, the director of the museum was moved by the new violent behaviors that have arisen in recent times, thanks to the fight against the pandemic.

he admitted.

After all, we said we were at war, so we are going to be at war, we need collaborators too.

Stéphane Grimaldi, director of the Caen Memorial

For Stéphane Grimaldi, these verbal attacks should be compared to the speech made by the President of the Republic, who himself used strong words in 2020 to evoke the fight against the virus.

, observed the director. In a difficult tourist context where attendance at the Memorial fell by

, these insults add a touch of arduousness to the work of museum employees, as Stéphane Grimaldi also mentioned:

Compulsory for two weeks in places of leisure and culture bringing together more than 50 people, the health pass will be gradually extended until the end of the summer in order to accelerate the vaccination coverage of the population in a context of dissemination of the variant. Delta of Covid-19.