• Saturday July 17, a hundred rallies were organized in France to denounce the extension of the health pass to fight against the coronavirus epidemic.

  • A viral photo posted on Facebook claims to show the colossal crowd gathered on this occasion in Paris, on the Champs-Elysées.

  • It actually dates from the victory of the French football team at the 2018 World Cup. The Paris rally against the health pass, however, mobilized around 18,000 people, according to the Ministry of the Interior.

How to minimize the size of a citizen gathering to suggest that it brought together few people?

Quite simply by putting forward figures revised downwards ... as would have done BFMTV about the Parisian demonstration of July 17 against the health pass.

At least if we believe a viral post on Facebook.

Illustrated with a photo in which a woman, perched on a roof, waves a French flag in front of a compact crowd on the Champs-Elysées, this publication claims to prove that the continuous news channel has underestimated the figures of this gathering.

“They were barely 1,500 yesterday in Paris.

The BFMTV freelance writer forgot two zeros on the teleprompter.

Hahahahaha!

», Ironically the text accompanying the cliché.

Except that this shot actually dates from 2018 ... and that BFMTV has relayed the figures of the mobilization against the health pass communicated by the Minister of the Interior.

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The photo visible in this Facebook post dates more precisely to July 15, 2018, the day of the coronation of the French football team against Croatia during the World Cup organized in Russia.

It was taken from the top of the Arc de Triomphe by AFP photographer Ludovic Marin, and shows the jubilation of the supporters of the national team, as its caption indicates, available on the agency's website. Press.

On July 17, 2021, the 136 rallies organized throughout France against the health pass brought together nearly 114,000 people, including 18,000 in Paris and 96,000 in the provinces, according to the Ministry of the Interior.

An accounting balance which BFMTV Paris took over at the start of the evening.

18,000 people demonstrated against the health pass in Paris this Saturday pic.twitter.com/0ZVIhlYssj

- BFM Paris (@BFMParis) July 17, 2021

The various videos shot live within the Parisian procession - including those of BFMTV - also give a good overview of the large number of people present, which could seem more or less impressive depending on the viewing angle or the width of the streets. borrowed by the demonstrators.

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