For the 17th consecutive weekend, opponents of the health pass marched in France on Saturday.
The protests mobilized a total of 28,920 people, according to the Interior Ministry.
The participation figure is up slightly compared to last week.
The ministry recorded 165 actions throughout the territory, with 3,240 demonstrators in Paris where at least two processions had been declared to the police headquarters.
Mobilization in decline since early August
The mobilization, launched in mid-July, has been declining steadily since August 7, which had peaked at 237,000 demonstrators, according to figures from the authorities. The Interior Ministry recorded last Saturday a sharp drop in participation with 25,000 demonstrators, including 3,320 in Paris. The previous week, they were more than 40,000 according to the ministry and 73,130 according to the militant collective The Yellow Number.
This new mobilization comes as Friday, Parliament authorized the possible use of the health pass until July 31, after the vote by the National Assembly in a tense atmosphere of the bill of "health vigilance", approved by 118 votes against 89 and one abstention.
In addition, as everywhere in Europe, the epidemic is experiencing a rebound in France at the start of the cold season and Emmanuel Macron will speak on Tuesday at 8 p.m. on this subject, undoubtedly in the wake of a Health Defense Council. .
The National Public Health Agency reported on Friday 8,998 new cases and a positivity rate of 2.4% over the last seven days.
A week earlier, that rate, which measures the proportion of cases among those tested, was only 1.9%.
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