This Sunday, a few hundred participants in the anti-vaccine pass convoys, also called “freedom convoys”, arrived near Lille, in the North.

They will stay there overnight before hitting the road again for a rally scheduled for Monday in Brussels.

By late afternoon, some 200 vehicles, cars and vans, including several adorned with French flags, had arrived at the meeting place, a car park in the Auchan shopping center in Fâches-Thumesnil, 10 km from the center of Lille.

Others continued to arrive, in a concert of car horns.

“We will go to Brussels to try to block”

"We don't let go" shouted those who had already arrived, some dressed in yellow vests.

"We will go to Brussels to try to block, to fight against this policy of permanent control", told AFP Jean-Pierre Schmit, a 58-year-old unemployed man from Toulouse who demonstrated on Saturday in Paris.

The decision has not yet been made whether to leave in the evening or on Monday morning, while on the loops of the Telegram messaging system, used by the participants, advice is given to cross the border in dispersed order.

The Belgian authorities announced on Thursday that they would ban access to Brussels for these convoys, while no authorization was requested for a demonstration in the Belgian capital.

Jean-Pierre Schmit says he is "impressed by the violence used by the police" on Saturday, in Paris, against the demonstrators who arrived in the center of the capital.

"But I've been a 'yellow vest' for three years, I'm starting to get used to it".

A few police officers were visible around the parking lot, but “nothing prevents” the demonstrators from continuing to the border with Belgium, noted a police source.

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