En France, à cause d'un masque non porté vous risqué la mort :
Insults, fights, death threats... When the compulsory wearing of masks in public degenerates into a real problem.
Mandatory on public transport since 11 May and in enclosed public places since 20 July, the wearing of masks has generated a lot of tension across the country. Attacks have been increasing in recent weeks, particularly in the transport sector, which has already been plunged into mourning by the death of a bus driver in Bayonne at the beginning of July.
Masked passengers in a bus in Lorient, 11th May 2020 (photo illustration).
Masked passengers in a bus in Lorient, 11 May 2020 (photo illustration). | THIERRY CREUX/OUEST-FRANCE
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Published on 04/08/2020 at 12:40 pm
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His death had moved far beyond the Basque Country where he lived and worked. The Bayonne bus driver Philippe Monguillot died on 10 July, a few days after being violently assaulted by several passengers who had been asked to put on a mask to get into his vehicle.
Prime Minister Jean Castex had denounced the attack as "an abject crime", promising that justice would punish the perpetrators. Since then, four people have been imprisoned and charged, including two for attempted murder. But attacks linked to the wearing of masks have since surged across France, as this non-exhaustive list shows.
A customer of a laundromat beaten up in Val-d'Oise
This is the latest attack against the backdrop of tension around the mask. A customer of a laundromat in Soisy-sous-Montmorency (Val-d'Oise) filed a complaint on Monday, August 3, after being beaten up by four people, including one whom he had previously asked to respect the mask wearing instructions. The assault took place on Sunday, around 4:45 p.m., in a laundromat located in a working-class area of the city, according to the complaint for "aggravated violence".
"I was folding up my clothes and putting them in a bag. I asked the man to wear the mask. It says it's mandatory and it's the law," said the victim, a 44-year-old man who was accompanied by his two children, aged 5 and 7. "He told me, 'I do what I want,'" he said, adding that he had reiterated this request given the configuration of the premises.
The instruction to wear a mask, which is mandatory in enclosed areas to limit the spread of the coronavirus, is posted in the laundry room, confirmed a member of the residence's union council.
After a heated verbal altercation, the unmasked young man left the laundromat and returned with reinforcements, according to the complainant.
Two men then hit the victim with baseball bats and two others with their bare hands, according to video surveillance footage. "I found myself on the floor, bleeding profusely and unconscious. It was to kill me," the victim testified on BFMTV.
A brawl between a tram employee and passengers in Dijon
The incident took place on Thursday, July 30 at approximately 6:30 p.m., downtown. According to the Dijon public prosecutor's office, the network employee was not on duty at the time of the incident but was wearing his work shirt with the Divia logo.
He was travelling as a mere passenger when he noticed two young, unmasked men. He called them to order. One put on his mask, the other said he didn't have one. The clerk then asked him to get off and the spirits warmed up.
"The employee Divia said he then heard insults, even threats, which the young man contests," said state prosecutor Eric Mathias in a statement. The small group went downstairs and there was "reciprocal violence": the driver was given a total incapacity to work (TTI) of five days. The young man with whom he fought, with no criminal record, also received various injuries requiring a four-day TCI.
The second young man intervened, "either to separate the two men or to help the first young man," says Mathias. He wishes "to continue the investigations in a preliminary inquiry, in order to determine as precisely as possible the exact circumstances and responsibilities", while the two young men spent several hours in police custody before being released.
Bus driver slapped in Martigues
The events took place in the evening of Thursday 30 July. After reminding a passenger of the compulsory wearing of masks in transport, the driver of a bus in Martigues was slapped.
When alerted, the police attended the scene and arrested the perpetrator, who was later taken into custody. According to information from the daily La Provence , the passenger was summoned to appear before the court upon prior recognition of guilt (CRPC), before being released.
A minor prosecuted for hitting a bus driver in Orléans
A 17-year-old is suspected of hitting a bus driver who had asked him to wear a mask on Tuesday 28 July in Orleans. He has been indicted "for violence against a person entrusted with a public service mission", the Orléans public prosecutor's office announced.
The alleged assailant was arrested and placed under judicial supervision by the juvenile judge, with a ban on contact with the victim and the use of public transport in Orléans (Tao).
The Tao driver (Keolis group) had been prescribed four days of TTI (total incapacity to work) due, inter alia, to an injury to one eye.
According to the public prosecutor's office, the driver had pointed out to the minor that wearing a mask was mandatory on public transport. The young man from Orléans, who had never been convicted by a court, then pulled his T-shirt up to the level of his face and walked to the back of the bus. He came back a few moments later, this time with a mask on, and hit the driver several times before fleeing.
SNCF agents copiously insulted in Montpellier
On 28 July, in Montpellier, employees of the SNCF's train security service were insulted by a recalcitrant passenger. With no ticket and no mask, this Parisian woman had to be expelled from the station.
She spoke insanity for several minutes, giving rise to nine pages of transcripts after viewing images from the pedestrian-camera of one of the agents, according to the regional daily Midi Libre .
Already known to the police for acts of insult and violence, she was summoned to appear before the criminal court and was fined for not wearing a mask.
A security guard beaten with an ashtray in Nantes.
The scene goes back to July 20th. On that Monday, a security guard guarding the entrance to a clothing store asked customers to properly put on the mask they were wearing before entering.
But one of them refused to do so and the situation escalated into a car chase. The client grabbed an ashtray from a table and hit the guard in the head, who got away with several stitches.
Two suspects, aged 19 and 20, were arrested by officials of the departmental intervention company. They were taken into police custody and were due to be brought before the prosecutor's office for an immediate trial on 22 July.
A man sentenced for threatening a driver in the Tarn with death
On 8 July, three days after the attack on Philippe Monguillot, a man entered a bus in Gaillac (Tarn) without a mask and drunk. He had made death threats against the driver, who asked her to respect the obligation.
He was arrested eight days later and sentenced to four months in prison on a suspended sentence for theft at the end of July.
It should be recalled that the wearing of masks has been mandatory on public transport since May 11, the date of the deconfinement. It has also been mandatory in enclosed public places since 20 July 2020. The fine for non-compliance with this rule is set at €135. More than 200 French municipalities now also require masks to be worn outdoors in order to stem a resurgence of contamination.
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to get the meds. So some places are enforcing the nonsence mask wearing other places don't really care. Tomorrow will be the first time wearing a mask, cant wait 
See here: Face covering exempt card.
www.bbc.co.uk
