France Tens of thousands of French people demonstrate against the health pass
France France says it draws lessons from Spain's reckless and rapid de-escalation
On the
third Saturday in a
row
they have reoccurred demonstrations in many cities in
France
against the extension of the pass health and on behalf of "freedom" .The authorities plan to
mobilize 150,000 people.
Last Saturday, the demonstrations
had gathered 161,000 people
and 110,000 a week earlier
.
In Paris, the first event departed from the Villiers metro station at 2:00 p.m. for the Place de la Bastille.
Shortly before 3:00 p.m. there were already
some tensions with the police
.
Before the start of the protest, the "yellow vest" Jérôme Rodrigues attacked "members of the government, members of the media who are there to sell him the efficacy of a vaccine without even having proof,"
saying that he feels "demonized. "
.
28-year-old Amélie came from Seine-Saint-Denis.
He participated in all the demonstrations, two weeks ago in Paris and last weekend in Le Havre.
"We scare people into passing laws more and more liberticides, supposedly to better return to normality, and yet
the state of health emergency continues again and again
," he laments.
Valérie, 45, an educator specialized in an addiction center, has been forced to be vaccinated to continue with her work, considers "the risk of the vaccine greater than the one she runs when contracting Covid"
since she is "young, healthy and free of comorbidities "
.
She proposes to her fellow protesters "to take sick leave" so as not to get vaccinated.
Another demonstration began after 2:30 p.m. near the Montparnasse station (district 6), at the convocation of the former
number two
of the FN and president of the "Patriots" Florian Philippot.
Carrying many French flags or a torn European flag, the protesters, mostly without masks, headed for the Ministry of Health.
The president of the pro-Frexit UPR (Republican People's Union) party François Asselineau announced on Friday his positive for Covid-19, and therefore could not demonstrate against the health pass, which he considers
"absurd, unfair and totally liberticidal
.
"
More than 3,000 police officers and gendarmes mobilized to monitor protesters and secure sensitive sites, a week after protesters were turned away from the Champs-Elysees, whose access was blocked on Saturday. Protests
are also planned in more than 150 French cities.
, with a potentially large stake in Toulon, Bordeaux, Marseille, Nice, Metz, Nantes and Pau.
In Montpellier, several hundred people, including many yellow vests, started in the early afternoon on the Place de la Comédie, shouting "Freedom".
"Macron / Big Pharma, same fight = killers," read a poster. In Strasbourg, 3,200 people, according to police, marched in the city center.
Grouped around the hashtags # manif31juillet and #PassDeLaHonte
on social networks, the opposition to the government measures federates protesters against health, against vaccines or against confinement measures.
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