French President Emmanuel Macron has said he is “absolutely” referring to statements he made on Tuesday about the unvaccinated, saying he wanted to ‘squeeze them in, make their lives difficult’, criticizing some of them for ‘making their freedom irresponsible’. , slogan ». He added that it was his responsibility to sound the alarm about the threat of Omicron.
“We can be outraged by colloquial speech, which I mean absolutely,” Emanuel Macron told a news conference at the Palais des Champs-Elysées with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. He added: “I am outraged by the situation we are in, the real crack in the country is there, when some people make their freedom, which becomes irresponsibility, a slogan.”
“And I can not let discussions like ‘let’s not treat them because of their choices’ flourish in our country.” No. “And I state it clearly,” he told Le Parisien newspaper, referring to two nurses who were angry with the unvaccinated.
He concluded by saying that “his strategy is simple: vaccination, vaccination, vaccination” and stressed that imposing restrictions on the unvaccinated is a European trend.
“I say this with great determination and emphasis: we must do it for all our compatriots who make the effort and are vaccinated and who, because of the irresponsibility of some others, which is sometimes a conscious choice, become infected.”
“And we must also do this for our compatriots who sometimes indulge in obscurantist views, in views of fear: they do not protect themselves while science, research and European technological and productive supremacy allow them,” he added.
“It’s my responsibility to sound the alarm, I did this this week so things can move forward faster,” he said.
Reacting to the statements of the President of France, Ursula von der Leyen said: “The vaccination certificate is a tool for the protection of vaccinated people … this debate on responsibility and freedom is very important in our society during a pandemic ».
Emanuel Macron had stated on Tuesday: “I really want to crush the unvaccinated, to make their lives difficult. And I will continue until the end. That’s the strategy. ” His remarks sparked a political storm as the French National Assembly debated a bill to convert a health certificate into a vaccination certificate.
Despite the heated debate, the bill was passed Thursday night.
France records an average of seven days of 200,000 daily cases of Covid-19, a record level since the start of the epidemic due to the high transmissibility of the Omicron variant.
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