Marches in France against Macron’s health pass and compulsory vaccination

Certain measures which part of the population interpreted as positive to fight against the increase in infections _ this Saturday France remained above 10,000 cases_, corn another part appeared to be a freedom veto choice of who they don’t want to be vaccinated. That in France and in other European nations they are not few in number.

The French Ministry of the Interior indicated that in total 137 demonstrations were called, Paris bringing together up to 18,000 people only in one of the three steps, place Beauvau. “We have doubts about coronavirus vaccines, it’s not that we think the Earth is flat, corn we do not know the long term effects of these rapidly manufactured vaccines and that Macron wants to impose on us, ”summarizes Rita, a 39-year-old nurse who took part in the march to Montpellier, where, according to the prefecture, 5,500 people occupied the streets.

On the Old Port of Marseille The figure reached 4,250 protesters, some of them targeting the “Sheep” which are vaccinated and “bad information” given by television channels, while in Nice there were 1,600, in Bordeaux 1,200, in Toulouse 2,500 (with slogans like “I am not a QR code”), in Strasbourg 2,800 and in Nancy 1,200.

In Dijon alone, the police used tear gas, while in the city of Lyon there were nine detainees as part of an unauthorized march, which brought together around 1,000 people.

“We are not anti-vaccine at all,” shouted protesters, or part of them. In the capital, all these complaints were heard in three different processions. In the first, decorated with the flags of France, we could see to the former number 2 of the far right Florian Philippot Front National, as good as to the Covid-skeptic deputy Martine Wonner, el cantante Francis Lalanne and up to former leader of the “yellow vests” Jacline Mouraud.

Before the event, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, president of the political group “Debout la France”, denounced during a press conference “an unprecedented abuse of power” and a “coup de santé”, alluding to Without the health pass, you cannot attend events or visit a minor in a hospital if you are not vaccinated.

At the same time, 1,500 other people raised their voices in the south of Paris, in a more chaotic group and guarded by a police cordon, but with the same slogans as during the third procession of the Place de la République: “The democracy of the French Republic is sought, disappeared on July 12, 2021” or “No to the ‘health pass’, stop the dictatorship “, were the slogans.

“We just want everyone is free to decide whether to get vaccinated or not. PCR tests must continue, they must remain free», Defended Aurélie and Tiphaine, both in their thirties and employees of a shopping center.

“We are here for the yellow vests claims and restrictions on freedoms. It is a liberticidal law which makes us go out into the street. We have always been in the street ”, condemned the“ vest ”Jérôme Rodrigues.