Outcry As Rich, Saint-Tropez Residents 'Given Coronavirus Tests'
Source: The Guardian
Neighbourhood of Les Parcs de Saint Tropez reportedly screened as local hospital staff do without. On the sunny Côte d’Azur, playground of the rich and famous, lockdown life in Les Parcs de Saint Tropez is good.
The Mediterranean – accessed via a private beach – is a little cool this time of year, but the luxury mansions and château here on the Cap Saint Pierre have swimming pools and if the temperature drops below 70F, as it did briefly this week, there is always the tennis courts or vast landscaped gardens. There is no need to carry an authorisation letter to go jogging when the 270-acre gated and guarded domain is chez vous.
Now local officials are investigating reports that super-wealthy residents of the complex overlooking the Bay de Canoubiers on the French Riviera also had access to private coronavirus tests at a time when even local hospital staff face a lack of screening.
The local newspaper Var-Matin reported around 60 of Les Parcs’ residents and their friends had been offered Covid-19 tests at a private unit on the grounds staffed by a doctor and technician. This was carried out as part of a “totally private screening operation” allegedly organised by the president of Les Parcs Association, Jean-Louis Oger, a wealthy French pharmacist who has several clinics and laboratories in the south of France...
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/25/outcry-as-rich-saint-tropez-residents-given-coronavirus-tests
Less fortunate neighbours reacted with anger, “testing reserved for residents of Les Parcs and their friends under the noses of Tropéziens … a great example of solidarity,” one told Var-Matin.
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- Business Insider, 'Inside the billionaires' compound on the French Riviera that set up its own private testing center while the rest of the country struggles to obtain coronavirus tests,' April 24, 2020.
The seaside town of Saint-Tropez has for decades been known as a summer vacation hotspot for celebs and the "see and be seen" crowd. Its beaches have been ranked as the best in France, and the area is so popular with the wealthy that it's been dubbed "billionaires' harbor."
Within Saint-Tropez lies the wealthy, 180-home gated community of Les Parc de Saint-Tropez, which is currently under scrutiny for the preferential treatment its wealthy residents have been receiving in the age of the coronavirus...
https://www.businessinsider.com/french-riviera-billionaire-enclave-private-coronavirus-testing-2020-4
- Saint-Tropez is known for being a playground of the rich and famous.
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Don't let anyone--or anything--in or out for 180 days--or until the good pharmacist agrees to test the local hospital--with costs born by entire community--and I'm REALLY stretching to use "community"
