Xavier Lemoine, the mayor of Montfermeil, publishes an anti-vaccine editorial and creates controversy

In the municipal bulletin, Xavier Lemoine calls on the inhabitants of this commune of Seine-Saint-Denis to reflect before having their children vaccinated. Words that create controversy in a department that has been hard hit by the virus.

“So, at the time when we want, from the start of the school year, to massively vaccinate increasingly young men and women, in full training at the age of adolescence, it is a question of our children therefore, I do not can only encourage the parents, whose consent will be requested, to take a good interest in the impact that their decision will have irreversibly for the future of their children”.

Here is what the Montfermeillois will be able to read in the municipal newsletter they will receive from today. Remarks written in an editorial by the mayor Divers right, already published on the city’s Twitter account last week.

Xavier Lemoine calls on his constituents to reflect before having their children vaccinated. He wonders about messenger RNA vaccines, a technique used in particular by the Pfizer-BioNTech laboratory.

“I come to the thorny question of vaccination, which has in fact been made compulsory. Let’s be precise, it is in no way a question of vaccines, at least to date for the various products offered in France, but of gene therapies. It is therefore advisable to take a good interest and learn about these brand new techniques that have never yet been used massively on humans.“, can we read in its editorial.

✍️ Message from @Xavier_LemoineMayor of Montfermeil, to the attention of Montfermeil residents and families, on the occasion of the start of the school year. pic.twitter.com/45wrhZKjJ9

— City of Montfermeil (@Montfermeil_off) August 26, 2021

According to Xavier Lemoine, “appropriate and effective early treatments” in the face of the virus, “care that avoids the severe form of Covid for the vast majority of cases treated” existent.

An anti-vaccine plea when Seine-Saint-Denis was hard hit by Covid-19 and which sparked controversy on social networks and in the medical community. Stéphane Gaudry is a resuscitation doctor at the Avicenne hospital in Bobigny.

While the Mayor of @Montfermeil_off @Xavier_Lemoine misinform the population of 93, I am on duty in Bobigny with a sheave #COVID19 full.
Misinformation is criminal. https://t.co/ImQSZ63meb

— Gaudry (@StephaneG05) August 28, 2021

Press release from the GHI LE RAINCY MONTFERMEIL medical community
1/ The GHI LE RAINCY MONTFERMEIL medical community unequivocally recommends vaccination against COVID-19. Our department has been particularly affected by COVID-19 and vaccination

— Simon Cattan (@cattan_simon) August 29, 2021

According to Health Insurance figures published on August 22, in Seine-Saint-Denis, 10, 7 % of 0/19 years have received the 2 doses of the Pfier-BioNTech vaccine and have a complete vaccination schedule against 17,4 % in Paris and 16,4 % in the Hauts-de-Seine.

The incidence rate on August 27 is 216 in Seine-Saint-Denis against 152 in Hauts-de-Seine according to figures from the ARS.

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