In July 2021 I published an article on vaccination. Two elders from my congregation spoke with me to withdraw my article. This direction was approved by the circuit overseer.

The July 2021 Governing Body update indicated that 98% of USA Bethel members were vaccinated. I wrote to the Governing Body to tell them that, by indicating that 98% of Bethel members were vaccinated, they were encouraging us to be vaccinated with a potentially deadly product. In its response, the Governing Body indicated that it mentioned these figures to reassure all Jehovah's Witnesses around the world and that it was not dissuading me from making my own decision.

In December 2021, by seeing their video updates that were coming one after the other and which encouraged us more and more to get vaccinated, I wrote a second letter to the Governing Body, this time more directly, by asking them to stop forcing us to be vaccinated. The response I received is very revealing: I understood that the Governing Body, in great hypocrisy, refrained from clearly stating that it obliged all Jehovah's Witnesses to be vaccinated in order not to be prosecuted afterwards.

In December 2022, the elders received a letter from the Governing Body (via branches) asking elders and pioneers to get fully vaccinated, as a requirement to attend their training classes.

I told myself that the red line had been crossed, and I thought of Jesus' words to the Pharisees: "do not do according to their deeds, for they say but they do not practice what they say." (Matthew 23:3). We find plenty of references in the literature stressing the importance of not being biased and here we are.

The Governing Body further requires the Elder's Body coordinator to verify that each elder is fully vaccinated before attending training! So the governing body is biased and asks others to be biased too… I wrote a letter to the French branch to denounce this sin and this violation of European law (resolution 2361 article 7.3). The branch quickly contacted the elders of my congregation so that they could find a reason to remove me. The only reason I heard from them was: "Stubborn". Seeing no other possible outcome, I resigned from my responsibility as an elder.

To put an end to the harassment of elders wanting to meet me, I asked them to delete my personal data using a model letter from the CNIL. Even if my data was not deleted (I filed an appeal with the CNIL), I no longer received any requests.

In July 2023, I found a lawyer who helped me file a complaint against the Association of Jehovah's Witnesses for discrimination between its members, an offense provided for and punished by article 225-1 of the Penal Code.

I am 56 years old. I live Gujan-Mestras (France).

Everything was fine before July 2021, everyone had their point of view on vaccination, some got vaccinated very quickly, others didn't see the point of doing it and still others were opposed, but everyone respected each other. When the governing body said that 98% of Warwick Bethel members were vaccinated, no one dared speak out. Many have changed their point of view and the most refractory have violated their conscience. Instructions were given not to speak out against vaccines. The vaccinated came to mock the unvaccinated, saying they were not obedient. Since that time, at each meeting it was reminded that one had to obey even if one found the instruction stupid. The unvaccinated would not be saved and some hoped that to return to the kingdom hall it would take a vaccination pass. Vaccinated people who fell ill with Covid said: “Fortunately I am vaccinated because otherwise I will be dead”. The side effects appeared very quickly but everyone acted as if nothing had happened, it was important not to talk about it otherwise we were accused of criticizing the governing body. Some refused to shake hands with the unvaccinated. You had to be fully vaccinated, put on the mask and come face-to-face, otherwise you weren't exemplary. It was forbidden to criticize the decisions of the Organization considered as Our Mother so as not to make divisions even though it was these coercive injunctions that divided congregations as never before.

I am 57 years old. I live Gujan-Mestras (France).

My mother had absolute confidence in the governing body. She was not for vaccines and overmedication. As the governing body became more pressing, she followed suit and accepted one and then two doses. No effect was felt so the third dose followed and that was the beginning of the end. She was extremely tired from the moments when the memory was no longer registered. A few months later it seems that his health is back to normal. As an elder told her that you had to be fully vaccinated to attend the pioneer courses, she accepted a fourth dose and since then she did not stop hospital visits and examinations until her death.

I am 57 years old. I live Gironde.

I was opposed to this vaccine but by dint of watching the updates, I resolved to take action. Everything went well at first, but a month after the third injection Bell's palsy appeared. Pain, the whole right side of my face paralyzed. At the hospital, they couldn't tell me where it came from. A year later the paralysis is still there. I really don't want to do the fourth dose.

I am 59 years old.