“Nearly 200 demonstrators blocked the main access to the site. The minister was able to enter through another access”said a police source.
“A person was arrested due to a rebellion”supplemented the source.
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 police officers, one of whom used an aerosol of tear gas.
“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 it. The president said it, 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 part of this malaise and put in place solutions to respond to the problems that are specific to us”he added.
Earlier in the day, the visit of the Minister of Health to the primary health insurance fund in Bobigny had gone without difficulty despite the presence of around thirty trade unionists in front of the entrance to the site.
