Anti-vaccination posters will be banned
They denounce supposed side effects of vaccines. In Toulouse, several antivax posters have been posted on billboards in recent days, arousing the indignation of doctors. Faced with the controversy aroused by this campaign, the authorities decided to react. Secretary of State in charge of Citizenship, Sonia Backes announces that a prefectural decree will be issued to ban these posters hostile to vaccination.
“Alert to the anti-vaccination poster campaign underway in Toulouse, I asked the prefect to use the recommended legal remedies to put an end to it,” the minister said on his Twitter account this Friday.
On Wednesday, the prefecture of Haute-Garonne had declared that it was seized of the case in the company of the Regional Health Agency of Occitanie and the Departmental Council of the Order of Physicians of the department. “A prohibition order will be taken, and a report made to the Public Prosecutor”, specifies Sonia Backes on this subject.