A request is filed with the Brussels Court of First Instance. A complainant believes that the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health discriminate once morest unvaccinated people in their comments. She asks that it stop …
She did not wish to appear in public but it is through the voice of her lawyer that she expresses herself. The complainant is a woman in her fifties, a lawyer by training. She refuses vaccination and claims to be the victim of statements deemed discriminatory made by the government as on September 17 when the Prime Minister evokes the responsibility of the unvaccinated in the management of the crisis.
“This epidemic is turning into an epidemic of people who are unvaccinated”, said Alexander De Croo. “It is not for a member of the government in particular to have remarks which are degrading and humiliating stigmatizing towards people who have made the choice that choice”, believes Inès Wouters, a lawyer specializing in fundamental freedoms.
The complainant has thus listed several comments in recent months from Alexander De Croo or from the Minister of Health Frank Vandenbroucke who, according to her, contributes to creating a deleterious and degrading climate towards unvaccinated people. The government would have crossed the red line. An action in the court of first instance was brought yesterday. “What we are asking is an action for cessation, that is to say that it ceases that this red line is no longer crossed and we are asking for the publication of the decision to intervene in several newspapers so that that it be publicly announced “, declared Inès Wouters.
This request comes at a time when the French president is creating controversy over the words used once morest the unvaccinated. Asked last night, the Prime Minister said he wanted to distinguish himself. “It’s not my vocabulary and I clearly wouldn’t say it that way”, he said. But the trial court may well ask the government in the future to use appropriate language.
