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COVID-19: France President To Make Life Difficult For The Unvaccinated

France president has said he will make life difficult for the COVID-19 unvaccinated.

Glamtush reports that President of France, Emmanuel  Macron has warned he intends to make life difficult for people in France who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19.

Macron says he wants to limit access to public space and access to activities “as much as possible” for the unvaccinated.

In his interview with Le Parisien on Tuesday, January 4, Macron, who is yet to announce if he will run for a second term in April’s presidential elections said that while he would not “vaccinate by force”, he hoped to encourage people to get jabbed by “limiting as much as possible their access to activities in social life”.

“I won’t send [unvaccinated people] to prison. So we need to tell them, from 15 January, you will no longer be able to go to the restaurant. You will no longer be able to go for a coffee, you will no longer be able to go to the theatre. You will no longer be able to go to the cinema.”

“I really want to hassle them, and we will continue to do this – to the end,” he told France’s Le Parisien newspaper.

However, his opponents say the strong language he used in the interview should not come from a president.

“No health emergency justifies such words,” said Bruno Retailleau, Senate leader of the right-wing Republicans, quoted by AFP.

“Emmanuel Macron says he has learned to love the French, but it seems he especially likes to despise them.”

Far-right leader Marine le Pen tweeted: “A president shouldn’t say that… Emmanuel Macron is unworthy of his office.”

Meanwhile, leftist politician Jean-Luc Melenchon described the remarks as an “astonishing confession”.

“It is clear, the vaccination pass is a collective punishment against individual freedom,” he added.

Macron’s comments came as a bill on Covid passes was delayed by opposition MPs working against the government.

A debate in parliament on the bill, which would ban the unvaccinated from much of public life, was prevented from continuing after midnight on Tuesday.

The legislation was expected to be approved in a vote this week, but it has angered vaccine opponents and several French MPs have said they have received death threats over the issue.

France has one of the highest Covid vaccination rates in the EU, with more than 90% of the adult population double-jabbed.

For months France has asked people to show either proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test to access many public venues.

On Tuesday, the country reported 271,686 new daily Covid cases – the highest number of daily infections recorded in France since the start of the pandemic.

Angela Davies

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