Will Act III be more important than the previous ones?

After bringing together 161,000 people last week and 110,000 a week earlier, new demonstrations against the extension of the health pass and compulsory vaccination for certain professions in the face of Covid-19 will take place this Saturday in France.

More than 150,000 people are expected in the streets, according to the authorities.

According to the results of a Harris Interactive x Euros Agency study for LCI published on Friday, 4 in 10 French people say they support these demonstrations.

Among them, 65% justify their support by "the impression of being imposed on what they must do, of not having a choice".

According to another Ipsos-Sopra Steria poll for franceinfo and Le Parisien on July 16, 62% of French people said they were in favor of setting up the health pass to enter public places, and 69% in favor of compulsory vaccination for caregivers.

Several steps in Paris

In Paris, four events are planned, two of which could be particularly attended.

One will leave from the Villiers metro station (17th century) towards Place de la Bastille (11th century).

Another will start at 2:30 p.m. near the Montparnasse station (VIe) for a parade in the direction of the Ministry of Health (VIIe), at the call of the former n.2 of the FN and president of the Patriots, Florian Philippot.

A rally is also scheduled at 11 a.m. in front of BFMTV.

The president of the pro-Frexit UPR (Popular Republican Union) party François Asselineau for his part announced Friday to be positive for Covid-19, and is therefore prevented from demonstrating against the health pass, which he considers "absurd, unfair and totally liberticidal ".

See you on August 5 for the Constitutional Council

More than 3,000 police and gendarmes will be mobilized to supervise the demonstrators and secure sensitive places, a week after demonstrators were repulsed from the Champs-Elysées. Events are also planned in more than 150 cities in France, with an attendance which should be particularly important in Toulon, Montpellier, Bordeaux, Marseille, Nice, Metz, Nantes and Pau. Grouped around the hashtags # manif31juillet and #PassDeLaHonte on social networks, opposition to measures to fight Covid-19 brings together anti-health, anti-vaccine or anti-containment protesters, with protean demands.

In the processions, where there are also many “yellow vests”, the demonstrators castigate a “liberticidal” health pass and claim to march “against the dictatorship”.

The health pass was adopted definitively on Sunday evening, after six days of heated debates in the National Assembly and the Senate.

Already applied in cultural and leisure venues since July 21, its extension to cafes, fairs, exhibitions, restaurants and trains is scheduled for August 9.

In the meantime, the Constitutional Council will render its decision on the law on August 5.

85% of unvaccinated patients

While new containments are put in place this weekend in Martinique and Reunion, in metropolitan France, the epidemic is blazing, especially in tourist departments.

People not vaccinated against Covid-19 represent about 85% of hospital patients in France, including in intensive care, and 78% of deaths due to the virus, according to a study published Friday by Drees, the statistical service of social ministries.

France exceeded the threshold of 50% of its fully vaccinated population on Tuesday evening, a level however still far from the collective immunity threshold estimated at around 90% with the new Delta variant.

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