The weekends pass and the mobilization continues. This Saturday, opponents of the vaccine pass and the government’s health policy once more marched through the streets of Paris and several other cities, convinced that the announced reductions in restrictions linked to Covid-19 are only an “electoralist” promise. “.
“We must not be taken for chitterlings! It is to get re-elected that (Emmanuel) Macron says that. And when he is elected, they will release a new variant for us, ”thinks Béatrice, 55, who demonstrated from the 16th arrondissement of Paris to the Ministry of Health, in one of the five Parisian processions.
For a definitive repeal of the vaccination pass
Under many French flags, a few Canadian or American banners and under the slogans “Resistance”, “Macron, your pass, we don’t want it”, regarding a thousand people marched in this procession of “Patriots”, the group by Florian Philippot, one of the figures of the anti-pass movement who threw in the towel on Friday in the presidential race.
“We do not want us to remove the pass (vaccination) to put it back a few days later. We want to repeal it permanently”, explained Florian Philippot, at the microphone, claiming to stand alongside “all the free peoples of the world in the same resistance movement”.
Virginie, who was also walking towards the Ministry of Health, said she was “disappointed” with the abandonment of the former right-hand man of Marine Le Pen, because “everything he says is correct”. But the 56-year-old psychologist, who has been demonstrating once morest the government’s health policy since 2020, does not intend to give up: “These are electoral announcements. How many deaths since 2020 because we did not treat people? “Asks this support from Professor Didier Raoult.
“We must not give up”
After the announced reduction in the health protocol in schools and the end of the wearing of masks in certain closed places, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, envisaged this week the end of the wearing of masks indoors in mid-March, as well as a reduction in the vaccination pass in the event of “very low” circulation of the virus.
“We mustn’t let go. The pass they will remove it but following the elections it will be even worse, ”also estimated a demonstrator in Strasbourg, where around 550 people marched near the city center, according to the prefecture.
In total, 23,800 people demonstrated in France as part of this protest, including 3,600 in Paris, according to the Ministry of the Interior, which identified 162 actions.
