INCIDENT – Protesters from the collective sanitary antipass broke into a session of the Regional Council of Guadeloupe this Thursday.
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A session of the Regional Council of Guadeloupe was abruptly interrupted this Thursday, December 23. Protesters from the sanitary antipass collective burst into the hemicycle by smashing windows and other objects, AFP learned from the Regional Council.
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“The collective broke the entrance gate and the door to the reception hall, and they entered the hemicycle as a plenary session was ending”, according to a communications manager in the region. She added that the elect had “had time to leave the hemicycle” and that the president of the region, Ary Chalus, “locked himself in his office”.
“A hundred people in the hemicycle”
According to images broadcast by the local channel Guadeloupe la 1ère, the demonstrators invaded the hemicycle singing while banners displayed: “No to the vaccination obligation! No to the health pass”.
“There are more than a hundred people in the hemicycle”, according to the regional press service, but in total these are “more than 400 people” who invaded the premises, including those who remained outside. “They prevent us from going out”, she added.
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The archipelago was affected in November by a protest movement, sometimes violent, born of the opposition to the obligation for nursing staff and firefighters to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Wider social demands subsequently emerged. This protest is led by a group of organizations, particularly trade unions and citizens, who are very demanding.
The negotiations which were to start in mid-December to resolve this crisis aborted in mid-December and did not resume after the elected officials left the negotiating table on the grounds that the main demand of the collective, to return to the vaccine obligation , was a state competence, not theirs. To satisfy the other points of demand, they formulated their proposals on social and family questions on a website.
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During a previous intrusion, at the end of October, at the headquarters of the region, demonstrators had replaced the French flag on the prefecture with the independence flag of Guadeloupe.
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