Thousands of protesters in Brussels against health measures in Europe

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Demonstrators in the streets of Brussels to protest against health measures in Europe that they consider too coercive, May 29, 2021. © YVES HERMAN / REUTERS

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A European demonstration for freedom brought together thousands of people in Brussels this Saturday.

The protesters moved from the Netherlands, Germany and Spain.

Among them, opponents of the European health passport, the mask, or the vaccine against Covid-19.

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With our correspondent in Brussels,

Laxmi Lota

“

 No dictatorship, return to freedom

! 

»Chant the demonstrators.

Livia traveled from Berlin.

She worries about the future of her three children.

" 

Sanitary measures are a form of slavery

," she says.

I also think the vaccine is risky: maybe not now, when they inject it, but later, in the fall, who knows what the effects will be

? 

"

Pandemic denial

Protesters who want to express their doubts about the Covid-19 vaccines, but also about the

European health passport

that will be required for travel.

“

I can't understand why we have to take a health passport to travel!

Exclaims a young woman.

In the crowd, some question the seriousness of the health crisis: “ 

What pandemic?

Because if there really was a pandemic, the world population would not have increased by 5%.

You should know that the figures, they have been well tampered with.

"

Valérie was one of the "yellow vests".

She regrets not being able to criticize the authorities' decisions: the demonstration was not authorized.

"

 When you try to rebel a little, you are immediately a conspirator, 

" she adds.

Another sign of their protest: none of these activists wears a mask.

While it is mandatory outside in the capital.

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