The Minister of Health went Friday April 21 to the Cap Horn health center in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis). But on his arrival, François Braun found the access blocked by 250 anti-reform pension protesters, who welcomed him in a concert of saucepans. “Nearly 200 protesters blocked the main access to the site. The minister was able to enter through another access,” said a police source. “One person was arrested due to a rebellion,” the source added.
A few demonstrators tried to enter the grounds of the Cap Horn health center visited by Mr. Braun before being pushed back in a scramble by the police, one of whom used a tear gas canister. “It’s not the sound of pans that will prevent me from continuing to work, to move forward,” Mr. Braun told reporters.
“There is a real malaise in society. We are all aware of that. As the president said, this malaise is multifactorial. There is the problem of pensions and there is also a problem of access to health for our fellow citizens, and that contributes to the malaise, to this malaise and to this nervousness, “continued the minister. “We all have to assume some of this malaise and put in place solutions to address the issues that are specific to us,” he added.
Earlier in the day, the visit of the Minister of Health to the primary health insurance fund of Bobigny had gone without difficulty despite the presence of around thirty trade unionists in front of the entrance to the site.
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