Moroccan Family Faces Racist Incident at COVID Testing Site in French City

Unusual scenes in Sète last Sunday. Michel Bodart, general manager of Biomed34, says he saw a man in uniform attack a family of Maghrebi origin to cut in front of them on the grounds that he was working, reports Midi Libre. "The family did not flinch. It is the chronicle, unfortunately, of ordinary life, of the tension created by the situation. We found an aggressiveness that we had at the first confinement." The first victims were the laboratory secretaries.

At the port of Sète, two queues have been set up. One for PCR, the other for antigen. Sunday morning, there were significant arrivals of people who were about to leave for Morocco by ferry and who had made an appointment. They then come to pick up their results in the evening and leave running.

On the ground, racist remarks continue to be hurled at travelers. The head of the Covid-19 test lab, for his part, tries to play the appeasement card. "When for example someone accused the travelers of being foreigners and having free tests." "We explained to them that Moroccans pay for their tests."