A protective mask thrown to the ground (illustration). – Steve Bisgrove / REX / SIPA
The mask market to protect yourself from the Covid-19 is fueling more and more lusts. A shipment of 200,000 cloth masks destined for several municipalities inIle-de-France was stolen from its carrier Thursday on a highway rest area Spain. “The driver was robbed at a rest area, it is still very vague,” said the company, Sissi et Cie, which specializes in the import and export of textiles.
“It’s shameful and dramatic”
From Portugal, the delivery, worth 400,000 euros, was intended for the cities of Bobigny, Bondy, Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis), Nozay (Essonne), Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines), Chelles (Seine-et-Marne) and Us-en-Vexin (Val-d’Oise). “It is shameful and dramatic,” responded the company, which has already delivered several communities since April 30, under police or gendarmerie escort.
The mayor of Montreuil, Patrice Bessac (PCF), who intended to distribute these washable and reusable masks this weekend in letter boxes, denounced “a criminal act which endangers the inhabitants”. The mayor PS of Bondy, Sylvine Thomassin, said that she had asked that “an investigation be carried out” and “arrested the Prefect for that”. “This situation is the simple and sad consequence of the state’s inaction on this subject. Because if the distribution of masks was centralized and made by the state, I am talking about free and reusable masks for all French people, we would not be there, “denounces the elected official.
The company says, however, that cities will still receive their order before May 15, as it pledged.
