SYears hair or eyebrows, the emaciated face, still marked by the test of the disease and its treatment, a woman attended one of the balconies of the Palais-Bourbon, Tuesday, July 8, in the solemn vote of the Senator Laurent Dupumb’s bill (Les Républicains, Haute-Loire), “Aimed at lifting constraints to exercise the profession of farmer”. Fleur Breteau, quarantine, founder of the Cancer Anger collective, was invited by left -wing elected officials to attend the vote, alongside other members of civil society. At the adoption of the text, by the deputies of the Blue-Brun arc and their deputy presidential party, to the victorious applause, Fleur Breteau shouted: “You are the allies of cancer and we will let it know!” »»
In response, as reported by journalists have reported, laughs crossed the hemicycle. Here is what a majority of the national representation had to oppose, that day, to the disarray and the indignation of this young woman and, through it, to the concern of civil society and all of the scientific communities concerned: an casual hilarity, contemptuous cynicism, a virilism of a cloakroom.
The cry of Fleur Breteau is not understandable if we just say for which the deputies voted. Above all, we must explain against whom they voted. They, of course, voted against all that France has environmental defense associations, but it is not very surprising. They mainly voted against twenty-two learned medical companies, against the league against cancer, against the administrators and the staff of the National Health Security Agency, against the third agricultural union of France, against the Foundation for Medical Research, against twenty mutuals, mutual groups as well as the Federation of Mutuals of France, representing several million insured, against the CNRS scientific council, against the federation of water. drinking, against hundreds of doctors and researchers who have signed Intuitu Person Open stands and letters.
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