Paris (AFP)

"Against Macron and his liberticidal measures": the anti-health pass mobilization recorded a further decline on Saturday when some 60,000 people, according to the Interior Ministry, walked the streets of many cities, during the eleventh weekly episode.

About 63,700 demonstrators including 7,200 in Paris, were identified at 6:00 p.m. by the ministry, for 197 actions in total.

Last week, at the same time, Beauvau had recorded 80,500 participants including 6,000 in Paris for 199 actions.

They were 237,000 participants on August 7 at the height of the mobilization.

In the capital, where four processions were to walk the streets, a few thousand people, including many "yellow vests", demonstrated between the Gare de Lyon (12th arrondissement) and the Sacré Coeur (18th century);

tensions arose at the time of the dispersal.

Others have responded to the call of Florian Philippot (far right) in the more affluent west.

"I am demonstrating against Macron and his liberticidal measures. Me, I am not vaccinated, I do not have confidence, but I will perhaps be obliged if the tests become paid", related Tristan, retiree of 72 years, "vest yellow from the first hour ".

The decline was particularly noticeable in the south-east.

In Marseille, some 800 demonstrators, according to the prefecture, marched.

This is the lowest participation in the Marseille city since the first episode of this movement, on July 17.

A week ago there were still 1,500.

And up to 6,000 in August.

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The demonstrators were 1,000 in Toulon, after having reached 22,000 in August, and 1,500 in Nice (where they were up to 10,000).

In Nice, demonstrators gathered on the sidelines of the procession, near the home of Mayor Christian Estrosi.

They were "kept at a distance," a police source told AFP, adding that they had dispersed after "use of force".

Mr. Estrosi, who had called this week for an end to these demonstrations in the city center, judged on Twitter "unspeakable" to attack his "family home".

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Mobilization was also down in Nantes (1,100) and Rennes (650).

In Bordeaux, more than a thousand people marched, according to the police - against nearly 3,000 at the beginning of the month - behind a giant banner "Liberty, truth, sovereignty".

Aurore Laurent, a 24-year-old saleswoman, described the application of the health pass as "inadmissible blackmail".

According to figures communicated by the prefectures, 2,000 people demonstrated in Montpellier, 1,200 in Strasbourg, a thousand in Lyon, 950 in Metz, 900 in Lille (against 2,100 last week) and 650 in Nancy.

In Reims, the prefecture counted 650 demonstrators.

According to France Bleu, singer Francis Lalanne led the procession.

A bill to extend the health pass beyond November 15 will be presented on October 13 in the Council of Ministers.

This pass became compulsory on July 21 in places accommodating more than 50 people.

It was then extended to hospitals except emergencies, bars and restaurants, large shopping centers by prefectural decision and on August 30 to 1.8 million employees in contact with the public.

On September 30, it is to be extended to 12-17 year olds.

This new day of mobilization took place when more than 50 million French people received at least one injection of the vaccine and the decline in Covid-19 patients continues in France: Friday 8,107 people were hospitalized against more than 9,000 a week previously.

Of these patients, 1,586 were in intensive care.

The government announced on Wednesday the lifting from October 4 of the obligation to wear a mask in primary school in the departments least affected by the Covid-19 epidemic.

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