The first step towards the famous “health dictatorship” long feared by opponents of government measures against Covid-19 has just been taken, in the wake of the adoption by Parliament of the bill on health pass?
There is no doubt, according to many Internet users, like this Twitter user who protests: “ALERT on the detention camps of young people under the pretext of COVID removed from their homes! The CHINESE dictatorship in FRANCE here we are! It is the Red Cross that comes to pick up people by order of PREFECTURE to take them to the camps! “
🚨ALERT on the detention CAMPS of young people under the pretext of COVID kidnapped from their homes! The CHINESE dictatorship🇨🇳in FRANCE🇫🇷we are there😡! It’s here @Red Cross who comes to pick up people by order of PREFECTURE to take them to the camps! Thank you @RicardoMinute pic.twitter.com/xnEMSCslqL
– FREEDOM (@GaumontRene) July 26, 2021
As proof, he relies on a video by Richard Boutry, a former journalist and well-known figure in the movement opposing health measures, during his visit to this alleged camp. We see him asking several questions to a woman present in the establishment, who explains in particular: “If the person arrives, is in contact and is positive for Covid-19 after a week, she takes it. [elle est confinée] for 10 more days. But afterwards, we don’t force them either ”.
Which leads Richard Boutry to bounce back with a worried air: “” She takes 10 more days “, it is a term of prison …”. And, a few seconds later, to add: “It is the Red Cross which, on the orders of the prefecture, orchestrates the whole, goes to look for the young people in their homes and brings them here. Wow… It’s still curious about this affair, I won’t hide from you that I am still stunned… ”
FAKE OFF
The establishment visited by Richard Boutry is none other than the agricultural high school Hector Serres, located in Dax Oeyreluy, in the Landes, as can be seen at 2’43 in the full version of his video.
Positive people or cases of contact with Covid-19 have been welcomed there “since July 18”, as confirmed by the Departmental Directorate of Employment, Labor, Solidarity and Population Protection (DDETSPP) of the Landes in 20 minutes, but only of their own free will.
A reception area for volunteer seasonal workers
“This is a logistical solution for people who have to isolate themselves due to a positive Covid-19 test or proven symptoms, and who do not have a private or family solution for isolation, c ‘that is to say mainly for seasonal workers or camping leaders, not a strategy of internment deployed by the State “, continues the DDETSPP, while specifying that these premises are intended” exclusively for adults and on a voluntary basis. “
” [Ce] center […] is one of the devices made available by Health Insurance to people who test positive or contact Covid-19, who must isolate themselves and who do not have accommodation. Hundreds of devices like this one have been or are being deployed throughout the territory since the start of the crisis by the Territorial Isolation Support Cells as part of the “test, alert, protect” strategy “explains for its part the Red Cross to 20 minutes.
“Some people have already left the center before the end of their period of isolation, they are not forced to stay”, concludes the DDETSPP, not without regretting “the intrusion [de Richard Boutry] in the establishment even though he would have obtained a visitation agreement if he had been requested. “
“All the volunteers left the center”
In practice, the Red Cross provides “technical support” to this initiative, as the Landes prefecture notes. in a press release. “The French Red Cross provided accommodation, meals, laundry and concierge service for the holiday camp leaders who tested positive or in the case of Covid-19 contact, all adults, [accueillis le week-end du 18 juillet et qui] have now all left the center, ”says the humanitarian aid association.
Finally, the holiday center currently open in another part of the establishment remains isolated from the space dedicated to Covid isolation, as the prefecture points out, while indicating that the latter will cease to operate on August 20, at the end of “seasonal needs”. Like the initiative to welcome positive cases or contact with Covid-19 recently set up in a youth hostel in Bordeaux, which had also aroused the concern of some Internet users.