It was not the strongest mobilization of the summer.

On Saturday, around 200 demonstrations were organized throughout France to denounce the government's choice to impose the health pass to fight the Covid-19 epidemic.

The Interior Ministry has identified 175,500 people.

The Le Nombre Jaune collective counted twice as many and estimates that 360,000 demonstrators marched across France.

In Morlaix, in Finistère, the mobilization brought together around 300 people.

Among them, one stood out with his openly anti-Semitic sign brandished throughout the procession.

Present on the scene, the national police had sent a report to the public prosecutor.

In a brief press release, the Finistère prefecture announced the opening of a judicial investigation, entrusted to the Brest prosecutor's office.

"An investigation for incitement to racial hatred is open", specifies the prefect Philippe Mahé who "condemns with the greatest firmness these abject remarks".

Swastikas, Jewish stars and SS badges

The case was reported by

Le Télégramme

which describes the banner as "a tangle of symbols including swastikas, Jewish stars, SS insignia mixed with strings of words referring to the conspiratorial universe and clearly attacking the Zionism ”. Asked by the daily, a spokesperson deplored this isolated act and explained that the individual in question had refused to lower his sign.

The Telegram

specifies that the speech read in the introduction to the gathering was intended to be clear. "We are not irresponsible, nor conspirators, and even more absurd, we are not anti-Semites," said one organizer.

Several reports concerning anti-Semitic banners have been issued since the start of the mobilizations against the health pass, in particular in Paris or Metz.

Identified in Moselle, a 34-year-old teacher will be tried in corrections for public provocation to racial hatred in September.

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Health pass: 175,500 opponents marched in France, mobilization down for the sixth Saturday of demonstrations

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  • Covid 19

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  • Anti-semitism

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