While calls to demonstrate against the health pass are announced for this Saturday, the prefect of Haute-Garonne Etienne Guyot is taking the lead.

He announced this Friday in a press release that he had taken a decree to prohibit “undeclared demonstrations and gatherings of protest on Saturday, July 17, 2021 in downtown Toulouse.

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He wants to prevent the recurrence of public disturbances that took place in the city center during the undeclared rallies of July 14.

He evokes “violence against people holding public authority, throwing projectiles and damage.

Gatherings continued with strolls in the city center ”.

The alert threshold exceeded

Another argument put forward by the prefect, that of the health context.

"The absence of a declaration of an event does not make it possible to identify organizers capable of guaranteeing control of the number of participants, compliance with barrier measures and social distancing and of preventing the participation of outsiders likely to disrupt the events. gatherings on Saturday, July 17, 2021, ”he wrote.

He recalls that the city center is very busy during this period of summer sales even though the department is experiencing an unfavorable epidemic development.

Thus, as of July 16, 2021, the incidence rate is 95.6 positive cases per 100,000 people, therefore significantly higher than the alert threshold of 50 per 100,000 people.

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