A few days after Emmanuel Macron's controversial statements on the unvaccinated, which he wants to "piss off", a few thousand people demonstrated against the proposed vaccine pass on Saturday, January 8 in several cities in France. 

Paris has seen several demonstrations, the most important of which brought together a few thousand people at the call of the Patriots of pro-Frexit presidential candidate Florian Philippot, according to an AFP journalist.

They marched, in the rain, from the Place du Palais Royal to Place Vauban behind the Invalides.

The former right-hand man of Marine Le Pen denounced "the country of tyranny, of segregation, where millions of people are set apart".

A police source called the gathering "tense".

Just like the one held on Boulevard de l'Hôpital, in the south-east of the capital, on the initiative of yellow vests, with "the inclinations of certain radical members to move the demonstration, but this was quickly contained", according to this source.  

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The bill on the vaccine pass, adopted by the deputies on Thursday, must pass before the Senate next week. 

In Lyon, a small crowd of demonstrators of all ages and little masked gathered in a good-natured atmosphere on Place Bellecour, in the city center.

Among them are a few yellow vests, tricolor flags and a red one from the CGT.

Slogans denouncing "social apartheid" and boos against President Emmanuel Macron and his Prime Minister punctuated the demonstration.

In Bordeaux, between 500 and 1,000 people, according to the police, and 9,000 according to the organizers, demonstrated in spite of the rain under the cries of "Macron on t'emmerde".

"When will we see a respect vaccine?"

, #ontemmerde "," Confidence broken ", could we read on the signs. 

Emmanuel Macron created an outcry on Tuesday by declaring to have "very want to piss off" the unvaccinated, by "limiting for them, as much as possible, access to activities of social life".

Words he said he assumed "totally" on Friday. 

The authorities had counted 121,000 demonstrators against the vaccination and the health pass throughout the country on September 11, and some 237,000 participants on August 7.

With AFP

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