“Confined but not resigned”, they don’t just applaud at 8 p.m. With old sheets and paint, French people “demonstrate” at their windows, drawing a portrait of a country where anger is mounting.
“Thank you to the caregivers, shame on the leaders”: this banner hung in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) sums up well the tone of the thousands of spontaneous messages displayed on the facades across France, which the unions called to multiply for the 1st may.
A police custody for a stretched sheet
A challenge in which the authorities sometimes zealously. Thursday, in Toulouse, a woman was briefly placed in police custody for having questioned on a sheet stretched in front of her house: “Macronavirus, when will the end?” In Paris and Marseille, other sign writers have been ordered to take them down.
Washed by weeks of exposure to the sun, the banner of Florence Bedague at Pré-Saint-Gervais (Seine-Saint-Denis) is still well hung. “Billions for health and the people who need it,” wrote this nurse reassigned to intensive care at the Paris Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital at the start of the epidemic.
“I immediately understood that we were going to have a hard time coping. And that it is now that the population will see that the hospital does not need millions, but billions. side is that people are starting to open their eyes and leaders are starting to get unanimous against them, “she said.
Protect yourself from the Covid-19 with trash bags
The caregiver, 58, believes that the situation has become “catastrophic 4-5 years ago” and does not recover from having to protect himself from the Covid-19 with trash bags, now provided by his management.
In Paris, Thomas Ballion, 47, a teacher, claims at his window “Money for the hospital, not for capital”.
At 8 pm, he applauds but also gives voice to thank “the nursing assistants, the cashiers, the garbage collectors, the workers” or to invite “not to go to work on May 11 if the conditions are not assured”.
On social networks, the collective “Confiné.e.s mais pas résigné.e.s”, created by members of “Fanfare invisible”, a group which accompanies various demonstrations, lists images of these banners.
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