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PARIS, Reuters
Police officers have been gunned down and shops looted during protests against plans for compulsory vaccination of health workers, which have fueled long-standing grievances over living standards and relations with Paris.
Overseas Territories Minister Sebastian Lecornu, whom Paris sent to defuse the crisis over the weekend, said 70 police reinforcements would be sent on Tuesday along with 10 more members of the SWAT team to help bolster the security.
Earlier Monday, the local prefecture said a curfew from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m. would be extended until December 2.
In Guadeloupe, there is a historic mistrust of the government’s handling of health crises after many people were systematically exposed to toxic pesticides used in banana plantations in the 1970s.
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The protesters insisted that they should be allowed to make their own health treatment choices.
(Reporting by Camille Raynaud and Leigh Thomas in Paris; Editing by Matthew Lewis)
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