Tens of thousands of citizens demonstrated today throughout France, from Marseille to Lille and from Montpellier to Paris, to challenge the vaccine, denounce the “dictatorship” or criticize the health care package.
Freedom, Macron dictator… From the north to the south of the country, the slogans were similar.
In Paris, protesters marched against the recent health measures announced by President Macron in at least three separate rallies.
The first procession, consisting of several thousand protesters, started from the Palais Royal in the center of the capital, before crossing the Seine shouting slogans such as Freedom, No to the dictatorship of health or Macron resign.
The leader of the procession, where the French flags were waving, was Florian Filippo, formerly second in the National Front (far-right party that became National Alarm) or the former leader of the “yellow vests” (the social movement that protested in France of 2018) Jacqueline Mouro.
“I was born in Portugal under Salazar’s dictatorship, I do not want to live it again,” said Fernanda, 53, a supporter of Florian Filippo. “It is the beginning of something extremely strong in the resistance,” said Filippo, who is running in the 2022 presidential election and is trying to win the support of those opposed to the health bill.
At the same time, about 1,500 protesters marched in the streets south of the capital, in a different procession.
“We are not vaccinators at all. We just want everyone to have the freedom to be vaccinated or not. “PCR tests may suffice and then they should leave them free,” said two 30-year-olds working at a mall in the Paris area.
Finally, a few dozen protesters took part in another rally, which had not been allowed to take place, in Republic Square.
In Nice, in the south, almost 1,600 people gathered to protest, according to authorities, and in the Old Port of Marseille another 4,250, criticizing the vaccinated sheep and the “bad information” given, according to them, on television.
“We have doubts about the vaccines against Covid, it is not that we think the Earth is flat but we do not know the long-term effects of these hurried vaccines that Macron wants to impose on us,” said Rita, 39, who cares for patients and seniors on the way to Montpellier.
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