In the spotlight: the revolt of the sanitary pass
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Anti-health pass demonstration in front of the Louvre in Paris, July 17, 2021 © REUTERS - Pascal Rossignol
By: Norbert Navarro
10 mins
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On the front page of the French press, the revolt of the sanitary pass.
At the time of its legal extension to a forced march in front of Parliament, rallies of opponents to this vaccine sesame are planned this Saturday throughout the country, awakening the specter of the crisis of "yellow vests" which had hit France in the end of 2018.
More than a hundred gatherings are planned throughout France, reports
Le Figaro
.
Last week, some 100,000 anti-health pass protesters were counted there.
This Saturday in Paris, three different processions will be formed.
Events also in Lyon, Marseille and Lille.
As
Le Figaro
explains
, "
the participants will come from different backgrounds, groups of" "yellow vests" recently reactivated, but also caregivers who oppose compulsory vaccination
".
France compared to a dictatorship
Faced with the criticisms heard in the processions of anti-sanitary passes which denounce a "
dictatorship
" in France, the daily
Le Parisien
, this morning, protested and wondered.
Legislative work in progress to end with a law: “
What is dictatorial in all this?
Has France become North Korea?
We have rather witnessed a democratic exercise which will also continue,
”said this newspaper.
And as the opponents of the health pass will demonstrate today,
Le Parisien
is pleased that they can “
pound the pavement and say their opposition to the government.
The right to demonstrate is also the prerogative of a great democracy
”.
The crisis of "yellow vests" still in memory
Is the government shaking? "
In the executive,
admits this daily,
a fear begins to settle
": that of the "
specter of" yellow vests
". In a note revealed by
Le Parisien
, territorial intelligence warned at the beginning of the week on the risks to come. “
Like what happened during the 'yellow vests' crisis, the longer the conflict will last, the greater the risk that the most determined and radicalized will manage to take control
” of this movement, reports this newspaper.
Daily in which an “
experienced
”
minister
recommends “
remaining cautious
” because, at the same time, fuel prices are reaching new heights.
"
Be careful that this mobilization does not come together with a protest movement against the increase in the price of energy and materials
," he told
Le
Parisien
.
We must be on the lookout to avoid a convergence of struggles and the threads touching each other
”.
France under the terrorist threat
To make matters worse, a terrorist risk alert was signaled.
New threats following the release of an al-Qaeda video lambasting the recent replay of Muhammad cartoons and targeting France are taken very seriously by the executive.
According to a note signed Wednesday by the director of the cabinet of the Ministry of the Interior Gerald Darmanin, and which the daily newspapers
Le Figaro
and
Le Parisien
report this morning, the bosses of the police and the gendarmerie as well as the prefects are called to "
take vigilance measures specific to the terrorist threat for the months of July and August 2021
”.
Unveiled by radio Europe 1, this note refers to a video in Arabic and with English subtitles, broadcast on July 15, “
devoted in its entirety to condemning the blasphemy embodied by the cartoons of Muhammad
”.
In this virulent message, "
the President of the Republic and the Minister of the Interior are explicitly targeted and targeted
".
In
Le Figaro
, a specialist in terrorism considers that such messages “
stimulate the endogenous threat
”.
At the beginning of July, in "
small committee
", an intelligence chief quoted by
Le Figaro
declared that "
the threat remains very significantly high
".
At the Tokyo Olympics, French handball players triumph over Argentina
The France team beat Argentina last night. True “
arm
” of the France team, Nicola Karabatic is in his fifth Olympiad: “
I have the impression of having already lived several lives,
” he told the
Parisian
. Words of goldsmith when we know that Nicola Karabatic returned from injury barely nine months ago.
Goldsmith, Karabatic?
Exactly.
Two gold medals have already been awarded to him in the saltire.
His first Olympic Games?
Those of Athens, in 2004!
Seventeen years later, he still scored three goals.
It was last night, against Argentina.
And it is one more than his younger brother Luka, another pillar of the French handball team, indicates Martin Guez, silversmith of the RFI sports department.
“
It's not listening to people outside that you reach the top of your discipline.
It's by setting your own challenges and your own limits,
”said Nicola Karabatic to the
Parisian
, hand to the ball, hand to heart.
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