Mobilize for “make a sign” And “so as not to allow attacks to multiply”, while the rise in violence against caregivers has reached new levels. For two days, from Thursday to Saturday morning, the SOS Médecins branch in Roubaix Tourcoing, but also in Lille, is closed. “in solidarity” after an attack on one of their colleagues.
A “punitive expedition” which took place at the SOS Médecins center in Tourcoing on Tuesday 19 November, stated as such Release Serge Bomoko, president of the local branch of SOS Médecins. He recalled how the incident happened: in the morning, a woman came with her two small children, one of whom, “very noisy”, Who “disturbing patients in the waiting room and disturbing doctors.” One of the practitioners at the center then told him. “His voice is rising” the first time, then the second time. The patient was finally seen to consult with another doctor, then left the place.
But a few hours later, “Exactly at 17.15,” a man returns with this woman. The two arrived at the doctor’s consultation room who asked him to calm the child. That man “throw away everything on the table” from a doctor aged about forty, that is “swinging hard to the ground” and he “punched you in the ribs”, Serge Bomoko was angry. According to the doctors’ union CSMF, the victim is suffering “chest trauma” and a “wound on the elbow.
According to the president of SOS Médecins Roubaix-Tourcoing, the practitioner, had been the victim of verbal attacks – “like most doctors” -, still “still in shock” from such violent episodes. “He was on sick leave for two weekshe added. But honestly, he was asking himself questions about the future. He doesn’t know if he’s going to continue.”
The victim filed a complaint on Wednesday. An investigation was opened for “violence against health professionals”the Lille prosecutor’s office confirmed on Thursday. The alleged attacker is the child’s father “presented spontaneously at the police station” and was taken into custody Wednesday evening, prosecutors added.
“It’s time to move”while doctor “experiencing incivility and violence on a daily basis”, condemned Jean-Philippe Platel, president of the board of the Northern order of doctors, contacted by Release. These attacks become “shallow” And “professional stakeholders”, especially in the Northern region.
This department is actually at the top of the report, with “nearly 400 attacks by 2024”. Since the beginning of 2025, North Korea has recorded 300 cases. “And againemphasized Jean-Philippe Platel, these figures are largely underestimated because doctors are reluctant to report all the attacks they suffer.
According to him, doctors have now understood it “like the service providers we shop with.” And cases are rising across France, he laments: another attack “planned” a doctor from SOS Médecins took place in Lille in early July. The two perpetrators were sentenced to one year in prison with an electronic bracelet. During the summer, it was in Beauvais. And a few days ago, in Saint-Malo a general practitioner received death threats from a patient.
The board president of the Northern Order of Physicians determined that the institution would be a civil party in the case, as would the order’s National Council.
“We are clearly experiencing a change in the attitudes of certain people, who are becoming antisocial and demanding in their behaviour. All the time, we are experiencing significant increases in levels of violence. Philippe Paranque, president of SOS Médecins France, also agrees Release.
“SOS Médecins is at the forefront of tackling this phenomenon because we see patients we don’t know all day long,” added the association president. case of aggression, “experienced every day”, increasingly turning into a case “attack”, for reasons such as prescription renewal or denial of sick leave. Philippe Paranque stressed, however, that these patients still exist Profit “minority”.
“Any patient disrespect towards doctors is now taken seriously, so that the patient concerned can no longer access SOS Médecins services”, finally showed the practitioner. Too long, “doctors are silent” For “does not highlight this phenomenon”. Today, he argues, we need to change our methods: “Denying every fact, speaking out at every opportunity, to sue society and especially politicians.”
