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Stung by the president’s shocking remarks on the unvaccinated at the start of the week, the anti-pass and anti-vaccines were in the streets on Saturday followingnoon. Gatherings throughout France which took place in general calm, even if there were some excesses in Paris.
Today in Paris, three processions gathered 18,000 people , according to the ministry. One of them was organized by the Patriots, the movement of Florian Philippot. They gathered at the Palais-Royal in the 1st arrondissement of the capital. As the authorities announced, there were more people than usual , despite the capricious weather. Nothing to discourage Thierry, who first came to say no to pass vaccinal . “It is insane that he tries to put aside a huge part of the population under the pretext that a vaccine which does not work, works”, he asserts. “The principle of wanting to separate people is a scandal.”
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Étienne does not want this either. pass vaccinal . “I can’t go to the movies anymore, I can’t travel anymore, I can’t go to a restaurant: it’s been going on for months. Why? Because I don’t want to be vaccinated?” he wonders, denouncing an attack on his freedoms. If he manifests today, “it is above all to tell Mr. Macron that we are pissing him off, but deeply”. The president was shouted at this followingnoon throughout the procession.
“A President of the Republic must not speak like that”
On posters put up by the demonstrators, we might see the face ofEmmanuel Macron , crossed out with a large syringe. The words of the head of state at the beginning of the week targeting the unvaccinated shocked and are still in everyone’s minds. This is what prompted Martine to protest today. “It’s scandalous. A President of the Republic must not speak like that, that’s all. He was elected for a whole people,” she says. The organizers of the various Parisian gatherings have already promised other events in the coming weeks.