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Italian dentist presents fake arm for vaccine to get pass yesterday

(AP) — A dentist in Italy the 57-year-old man was an
faces possible criminal amputee and had mistakenly He had already been sus-
charges after trying to re- offered the wrong arm. She pended from work because
ceive a coronavirus vac- lifted his shirt and saw a sili- of his refusal to get vaccinat-
cine in a fake arm made of cone arm. ed, which Italy requires for
silicone. medical personnel.
“I understood immediately
A nurse in the northern city that the man was trying to The nurse said the man was
of Biella, Filippa Bua, said avoid the vaccination by us- courteous and left the vacci-
she could tell right away that ing a silicone prosthetic, into nation center after the failed
something was off when a which he hoped that I would attempt.
man presented the phony inject the drug, unaware, Bua
limb for a shot on Thursday. said. “We stopped and reflected,
and we understood that this
“When I uncovered the arm, The nurse said the man ac- wasn’t just a surreal situation,
I felt skin that was cold and knowledged he did not want but a real attempt at fraud,”
gummy, and the color was a vaccine but to obtain a “su- Bua said. She and others at to 59 have proven the most
too light,” Bua told Italian per” health pass, which from the vaccination site turned While Italy’s vaccination rate resistant to vaccinations, with
newspaper Corriere della Monday will be required to paperwork over to superi- is relatively high at 85% of nearly 3.5 million still not
Sera. enter restaurants, cinemas, ors so they could report the the currently eligible popula- having received their first
theaters and other venues in case, which has been given to tion ages 12 and over, people doses.
She said she initially thought Italy. prosecutors. in the the age range from 30

Violence as French far-right TV pundit holds campaign rally

(AP) — Anti-racism activists French,” a quote attributed to Napo- racism activists and security guards. porters from far-right National Party
were beaten up Sunday as far- leon. leader Marine Le Pen, who has long
right former French TV pun- Reporters from a French television said she would run for the French
dit Eric Zemmour held his first “What’s at stake is huge,” Zemmour show covering politics were booed presidency next year.
presidential campaign rally near said. “If I win that election, it won’t and insulted by Zemmour’s sup-
Paris, a few days after he formally be one more (political) changeover, porters ahead of his speech, leading His first rally came one day after
declared his candidacy in a video but the beginning of the reconquest them to be briefly escorted outside France’s main conservative Repub-
highlighting his anti-migrant and of the most beautiful country in the the room by security guards. They licans party picked its presidential
anti-Islam views. world.” came back soon afterward but Zem- candidate. Valérie Pécresse, the head
mour harshly criticized the media in of the Paris region and a former min-
Zemmour has drawn comparisons Supporters at the rally sang France’s his speech. ister from 2007 to 2012, as its presi-
in France to former U.S. Presi- national anthem, shouted “Zem- dential candidate.
dent Donald Trump because of his mour, president!” and “We will win!” “They are making up polemics about
rabble-rousing populism and ambi- while brandishing the tricolor French books I wrote 15 years ago, they French President Emmanuel Ma-
tions of making the jump from the flag. AP reporters saw some activists snoop into my private life, call me all cron, who defeated Le Pen in the
small screen to national leadership dressed in black with “No to racism” sort of names... My adversaries want 2017 presidential runoff, is expected
in France’s presidential election in on their sweaters being beaten up by my political death, journalists want to seek a second term but he has yet
April. The 63-year-old with multiple people at the rally and brutally taken my social death and jihadists want my to declare his candidacy.
hate-speech convictions unveiled his out of the room. The scuffles contin- death,” he said.
campaign’s slogan: “Impossible is not ued outside the room between anti- The far-left leader of the Rebel
The rally, which was initially to held France party, Jean-Luc Mélenchon,
in a Paris concert hall, was moved to who is seeking the presidency for the
a bigger exhibition center in a north- third time, also staged a rally on Sun-
ern suburb of the capital for security day, gathering several thousand sup-
reasons as a protest against Zemmour porters in Paris.
took place Sunday in Paris, organized
by over 50 organizations including Other presidential candidates on the
far-left political parties, unions and left include Paris Mayor Anne Hidal-
anti-racist groups. Police had feared go for the Socialist party and Yannick
clashes with Zemmour’s far-right Jadot, a former Greenpeace activist,
supporters. for the Greens.

In the popular Paris neighborhood of Those attending rallies for Zemmour
Barbes, thousands of demonstrators and Mélenchon were not required to
took to the streets Sunday, marching show their French COVID-19 health
behind a banner reading “Paris will passes, in line with a decision from
silence the far-right.” the Constitutional Council that said
the passes should not be used to re-
Pauline Salingue, a spokeswoman for strict access to political meetings.
the head of the New Anti-Capitalist
Party, said people “shouldn’t be se- Wearing a mask is mandatory in pub-
duced by these so-called anti-system lic gatherings, yet many Zemmour
profiles. Zemmour is a multimillion- supporters at the rally in Villepinte
aire, Zemmour earns tens of thou- defied the government restriction.
sands of euros per month, so how
can he pretend to represent the little Coronavirus infections have jumped
people, as he likes to say? It is a very in France over the last few weeks,
serious scam.” with daily new cases getting close to
40,000 on average, and virus-related
Zemmour has gained strength on hospitalizations and deaths are again
France’s political scene in recent rising.
months, starting to siphon off sup-