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Masks ordered in China by the Grand Est region were bought directly by the Americans on the tarmac of Chinese airports, in particular that of Shanghai, from where the delivery planes must leave. The latter therefore change their flight plans to head for the United States instead of France.
It is the president of the Grand Est region, Jean Rottner who tells the story of this unforgiving universe at the microphone of RTL . Fortunately, his men managed to get this precious commodity through in times of crisis.
"The Americans take out the cash".
“Me, I have a small cell at the regional level which works very hard to, with the sponsors, be able to win these markets. And indeed, on the tarmac, the Americans take out the cash and pay three or four times for the orders we have made, so we really have to fight. And I was very happy to see this plane arrive at our house last night, ”he added.
Two million surgical masks ordered by the Grand Est region from China were delivered overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday at Basel-Mulhouse airport.
Jean Rottner, himself an emergency doctor in Mulhouse, the Alsatian city where this evangelical gathering took place where the Covid-19 has spread widely, has ordered a total of five million masks, financed by the budget of the region. The Grand Est was the first region to receive its own order for masks placed in addition to national orders.
Other regions followed. And the president of the Paca region, Renaud Muselier, also complained on Tuesday of such a practice on the part of American buyers.
Emmanuel Macron, criticized for the lack of masks that France has to face, notably promised Tuesday "full independence" by the end of the year for the production of masks, during a visit to a manufacturing plant in Anjou. Meanwhile, France has ordered "more than a billion and a half masks in France and abroad" to meet the needs related to the Covid-19 epidemic, said Minister of Health Olivier on Wednesday Veran.
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