Anti-health pass demonstrations: 204,090 demonstrators including 14,250 in Paris

At least 38,000 people demonstrated on Saturday in the South-East of France against the vaccination obligation, the generalization of the health pass and the action of the government in motley processions also bringing together yellow vests and anti-vaccines.

Throughout France, 204,090 demonstrators were counted by the Ministry of the Interior, including 14,250 in Paris.

In Montpellier, the demonstration brought together 10,000 people, according to the latest report from the prefecture, nearly double last week (5,500).

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Varied demands and audiences

For the South-East, the record was reached in the Var where the gathering in Toulon drained 13,000 people, according to the prefecture.

In Nice, the mobilization, which gathered 6,500 people according to the police, was also a little more provided than the previous week when 6,000 protesters had marched.

In Paris, the four events planned marched for several hours in a rather calm atmosphere.

In the Parisian procession to which Europe 1 went, the demonstrators marched quietly chanting slogans against the government.

In the procession, there were families, young and old.

And the demands were in the image of the public, varied.

"Why are you forcing us to do this?"

In the protest followed by Europe 1, some are against the vaccine, while others have conspiratorial arguments. Lea, she came to denounce the health pass. She sees in its extension a disguised vaccination obligation. "The vaccine was not supposed to be compulsory and we are doing everything to make it compulsory by telling us' if you don't get vaccinated, you don't go to a restaurant 'and' if you don't get vaccinated, you don't. can not go to the movies' ", she denounces. "When we get vaccinated, there are no complications. It's more a question of principle and blackmail. Why force us to do it in fact? What could that change for them?"

After their march, some demonstrators stopped in front of the Ministry of Health, where figures of the movement against the health pass, such as the leader of the Les Patriotes party, Florian Philippot, spoke.

In the crowd, many had already demonstrated in previous weeks and now plan to continue the movement.

This is the case with Mathilde: "I am convinced that we will succeed, but you must not stay at home, you must not stay in front of your sofa. You have to move and move more than ever."

She promises to come back "yet more Saturdays".

"As long as I can, as long as my body allows, I will move."

Tense evacuation of Place de la Bastille

The message was heard by the organizers: at the end of the rally, to the applause of the crowd, they called to meet again next week. At the end of the day, on the Place de la Bastille in Paris, the situation became somewhat tense. The police used tear gas and water cannons in the face of projectiles from the last demonstrators. The police headquarters reported three wounded among the police.