• While the bill establishing the health pass is under consideration in the Senate, 168 rallies took place this Saturday in France to protest against the measure.

  • In Paris, thousands of demonstrators were present alongside Florian Philippot, at the Trocadéro, or in the procession of "yellow vests", party of the Bastille.

    In total, 11,000 demonstrators were identified in the capital by the Minister of the Interior.

  • Dive into vaccinated and non-vaccinated people united by the same fear: to see the emergence of a two-speed society.

For Florian Philippot, there was no room for doubt: his rally “for freedom” on the Place du Trocadéro, in Paris, this Saturday, would necessarily mark a “thunderclap in the sky of the capital”. And if the former number 2 of the FN, now president of the Patriots, was far from being the only organizer of a rally against the health pass during this day of national mobilization, the demonstrators were present at his side.

Like Philippe, already present at the meeting on July 17.

"Florian Philippot has been campaigning from the start against the government's measures, we can not do better in terms of consistency," he believes, a little away from the crowd gathered near the platform in this midst of 'afternoon.

“I am against the vaccine obligation disguised as a health pass.

I have no problem with those who want to be vaccinated, but it is the obligation that bothers me, other means could be implemented to contain the epidemic, such as the reopening of hospital beds dedicated to patients with Covid-19 at Hôtel-Dieu or Val-de-Grâce ", continues Philippe, while deploring" that all doors are closed to us to direct us towards confinement and therefore compulsory vaccination.

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"I would prefer to wait for the vaccine from Sanofi Pasteur"

A few meters further on, in the midst of the swarm of French flags and “Free France” signs, Julie * and Sabrina, like him, hope for the withdrawal of the bill on the health pass. “Otherwise, as a nurse, I will have to get vaccinated before September 15 to avoid losing my job. It's been almost two years since the Covid is there, I have never caught it and I prefer to wait to have perspective on RNA vaccines, they are too recent for their effects to be known at 5 or 10 years ” , explains the first, supported by Sabrina: “I would prefer to be able to wait for the vaccine from Sanofi Pasteur rather than see myself the vaccination imposed now. "

On the stage of the Trocadéro, between two rallies of the crowd with cries of “Freedom!

"," Resistance!

"Or" Macron resignation!

», The interventions multiply to castigate the health policy of the President of the Republic.

Faced with the project of “social death” that the government would defend, the Patriote activists intend to give birth to “the French summer”, in the tradition of “the Arab springs”.

“This is the first time that we have seen such a mobilization in the middle of July, it's unheard of and we will be there again in August!

“Enthuses the Parisian referent of the movement, Dominique Bourse-Provence.

"We will no longer go to the restaurant in solidarity with the unvaccinated"

A determination shared a few hours earlier by the demonstrators gathered in the procession of "yellow vests", Place de la Bastille, ready to leave for the Porte de Champerret.

Whether they are used to pounding the pavement, like Richard - "yellow vest of heart" who wants "to continue being able to go on the terrace" and refuse to be vaccinated "without further hindsight" - or that they demonstrate for the first time, like Clémentine, her husband and their three children, all intend to show their disagreement with "the emerging world".

Richard, who came from Hauts-de-France, wants "to be able to continue going on the terrace without being prevented from doing so" and refuses to see France "practice discrimination and segregation": "We will be there as long as the sanitary pass will be there »pic.twitter.com/uxnbnfqV6E

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“We are vaccinated and we come from a privileged social class, but the idea of ​​seeing the health pass create different categories of citizens revolts us.

Free will should remain the norm in terms of vaccination, therefore, in solidarity with the unvaccinated, we will no longer go to the restaurant ", details Clémentine, ready to wave her signs" There is no sub-French " and “Mr. Chairman, we are not your toys”.

"The idea is to go as far as withdrawing the text"

Around her, while waiting for the departure of the procession, some demonstrators assess the forces present, divided between the pleasure of seeing "people from all walks of life mingling, as in the era of" yellow vests "", and regret that a single demonstration did not bring together all the opponents of the health pass in Paris - around 11,000 people participated in the three declared demonstrations, according to the Interior Ministry. As during the demonstrations of "yellow vests", incidents took place at the end of the day near the Champs-Elysées, where the police used tear gas against about 200 people and arrested 9 people.

“Everyone is free to join us, vaccinated as well as unvaccinated.

We are not aiming for a quantified mobilization objective, the idea is to go as far as withdrawing the text ”, confides Nejeh Ben Farhat, the“ yellow vest ”at the initiative of the Bastille rally… everything hoping for another outcome: “If the government wanted to do things right, it would organize a referendum to ask whether the French approve or not the health pass, since it affects our individual freedoms.

If the majority were in favor, it would make everyone agree.

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