Macron insists on his statement about the unvaccinated that caused a stir

The statement of Emanuel Macron that he really wants to “bag” the unvaccinated caused a storm, but the president of France insists that he means “absolutely” the statements he made on Tuesday. Macron noted that he wanted to “squeeze them, to make their lives difficult”, criticizing some of them for making “their freedom, which becomes irresponsibility, a slogan”.

“We can get angry with colloquial speech patterns, which I mean absolutely,” he said. Emanuel Macron during a press conference at the Palais des Champs-Elysées with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. And 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 said referring to the discussion in the newspaper Le Parisien, where he was responding to two nurses 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, they 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 to do so,” he added. broadcast by international agencies and rebroadcast by the Athenian News Agency.

Emanuel Macron

“It’s my responsibility to sound the alarm, I did this this week so things can move forward faster,” he 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,” said Ursula von der Leyen.

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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