Orange with Media Services, published on Sunday 03 May 2020 at 8:40 p.m.
Yannick Jadot reacted to the controversy over the sale of masks in supermarkets this Sunday. For the EELV MEP, the truth will have to be made around this management of masks in this sector, which will have “to supply in priority” the nursing staff.
It will be necessary “to know the truth” on the purchases of masks in the large distribution.
This is what Yannick Jadot estimated on Sunday May 3. The MEP wants these masks to be assigned “as a priority” to caregivers who lack them.
Invited on France 3, the green elected official reacted to the controversy over masks in the mass market, which sparked the ire of health professionals. While the latter denounced the “indecency” of the number of masks in the sector, the Secretary of State for Transport, also invited on the program, reiterated that there were no “hidden stocks” of masks in supermarkets. Jean-Baptiste Djebbari regretted “ugly rumors” against the sector. Now that “almost 100 million masks” are imported each week into France, it is possible “to have more loose distribution doctrines, in any case more open than until now,” he explained.
Masks sold in supermarkets, “it doesn’t seem scandalous to me”
“It’s been more than two months that we have had controversies almost every day on masks: it has already been to know whether it was necessary or not to have masks, it has been, for two months, explanations sometimes quite hazardous on shortage levels, “said Yannick Jadot. “And today, indeed, if it turned out that supermarkets were able to accumulate stocks of masks, when our caregivers did not have everything they needed” and that “potentially there were some available it would be a scandal, “continued the MEP.
For him, “that supermarkets sell masks, it does not seem scandalous to me (…) but that, at a time when we are constantly in the management of the shortage, and especially for staff and people who are the most exposed, we will have to know the truth about it. ” “One of the solutions to this controversy is that (…), if there were to be a shortage of masks, the large retailers are committed to supplying these personnel as a priority” caregivers, He suggests.
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