Guadeloupe anti-vaccine protesters attack top hospital staff
Police have rescued a hospital boss and his two deputies after anti-vaccination protesters laid siege to their offices in the French overseas territory of Guadeloupe.
Demonstrators against the legal requirement for health staff to get Vaccinated against COVID-19 surrounded the university hospital’s administration building and locked up its managing staff on Tuesday.
Police intervened and had to protect them while escorting them out of the building.
“I was evacuated after receiving a punch in the ribs and a huge blow to the head. I think I was unconscious for 10 seconds,” he said.
His deputy Cedric Zolezzi said his shirt was torn, and he was splashed with urine while rushing towards a police vehicle. The experience was “shocking”, he said.
In Paris, government spokesman Gabriel Attal called the attacks “shameful, revolting, scandalous, unacceptable in a republic” and assured the managers of his “solidarity”.
The government on Wednesday declared a “state of health emergency” in some of France’s, overseas territories including, Guadeloupe because of a rise in coronavirus cases combined with a low vaccination rate there.
Nobody was arrested during Tuesday’s incident, which looked like a “rugby scrum” according to a police source.
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