This Saturday, January 8, while the end of the year celebrations had marked a semblance of a truce, the demonstrations once morest health measures are likely to resume with a vengeance. The vaccination pass has just been adopted by the National Assembly, and the government does not seem to have a strategy of easing tensions. On the contrary.
“I really want to piss off the unvaccinated”
One following another, each has gone its own way to demonize the unvaccinated. Olivier Véran, Minister of Health moreover, opened the ball rolling by categorizing them according to three parts: the “far from everything”, the “delusional suspicious” and the “indifferent”. Then, four days following presenting his wishes to the French, Emmanuel Macron said he had ” want to piss off the unvaccinated », Also assuring that their irresponsibility was to mark the end of their citizenship. After the media, including international ones, seized on his finest tirades to turn them into pretty titles, it was Gabriel Attal and Jean Castex who came to drive home the point. When the first played rhetoric by proudly asking ” Who is screwing whose life today? “, The second assured:” The President of the Republic can also sometimes say aloud what a lot of people think softly. ».
Ads which, if they caused a lot of noise in the press, did not make everyone react. Michel-Édouard Leclerc, for example, remained particularly insensitive to the news of the vaccine pass, assuring that he would respect the law and that he would close the doors of his stores to the unvaccinated if asked.
#NonAuPassVaccinal, a petition with more than 1,270,000 signatures
Opposite, the reactions are lively and are reflected in several forms. We will retain, as a new figure of the opposition, Rodolphe Bacquet, author of the petition which collected a record number of signatures. On January 5, he submitted it to the National Assembly and the Senate.
On the legal side, the BonSens.org association called on French citizens to mobilize to demand the resignation of the “Sages” of the Palais-Royal.
The Sacred Union, a new attempt at citizen mobilization
Together with Philippe Murer, Rémi Tell called for it: a citizen apartisan grouping, which ignores political differences to fight once morest health authoritarianism. Although the appeal did not achieve the desired objective, the slogan still seems to rally several oppositions. On Twitter, another cry of anger converges vaccinated and non-vaccinated: #JeNeSuisPlusUnCitoyen, in reference under the terms of the president.
Anyway, despite a weather that promises to be unfavorable for outings, many demonstrators will be pounding the cobblestones of France this Saturday, January 8. Far from finding a crowd there ” indifferent “Or” suspicious delusional », As Olivier Véran predicted, they are lawyers, students, doctors and many other citizens who have announced their presence here and there, and who intend to make their voices heard. Even the police union France Police announced its participation:
The syndicate @francepolice announces its participation in the # 8Januaryallinlarue
The #Police is not there for # piss offTheNonVaccinated but to protect all the French
Rather than pissing off the unvaccinated, #macron #Castex better piss off the dealers– Syndicat France Police – Angry policemen (@francepolice) January 6, 2022
In the heart of the capital, the most important march will undoubtedly be that of Florian Philippot and the Patriots, departing from Place du Palais Royal at 2 p.m., to Place Vauban. Especially since it will be alongside the yellow vests of Sébastien Philippart, who have chosen the same course.
March for the Sacred Union in Paris: departure 2 p.m. Place du Palais Royal, arrival Place Vauban.
Other yellow vests will work elsewhere in Paris. You can find their meeting points on their dedicated website. Among them will be in particular the march of the Citizens’ Union for Freedom, led for months by Sophie Tissier.
Elsewhere in France, gatherings will take place all over the big cities. Here is a non-exhaustive list, updated regularly by the Telegram account “Info Manif France” :
- Abbeville 2 p.m. Theater
- Agen 2 p.m. Quai du Gravier
- Aix-en-Provence 10am La Rotonde
- Ajaccio 3 p.m. Parking Lot-Excavation Auchan
- Albertville 10am Parking du Pénitentiier
- Albi 2 p.m. Place du Vigan
- Alençon 2:30 p.m. Halle aux blés
- Amiens 2 p.m. Maison de la culture
- Ancenis / Saint-Géréon 10h Parking du Gotha
- Angers 2 p.m. Kiosk Jardin du Mail / 3 p.m. Place du Ralliement
- Angoulême 14h Place New York
- Annecy 2:30 p.m. Au Pâquier
- Annonay 11 am Place des Cordeliers
- Arras 2 p.m. Place des heroes
- August 2 p.m. Place de la Liberation
- Aurillac 10h Place des droits de l’homme
- Autun 3 p.m. Champ de Mars (bandstand) + free terrace
- Auxerre 3 p.m. Place de l’Arquebuse
- Avignon 2 p.m. Place de l’Horloge
- Avranches 1 p.m. Town hall, Citizen’s march towards Mont Saint Michel
- Bar-le-Duc 2 p.m. Station
- Bastia 17h Prefecture
- Bayonne 2 p.m. In front of the town hall square
- Beauvais 2 p.m. Cathedral Square
- Belfort 2 p.m. Prefecture. Canceled. Manif in Montbéliard
- Besançon 2 p.m. Place de la Révolution
- Blois 2 p.m. Place Louis XII
- Bordeaux 2 p.m. Place de la Bourse
- Boulogne-sur-Mer 3 p.m. Parvis de Nausicaa
- Bourg-en-Bresse 2 p.m. Parc (Square Joubert) in front of the Prefecture
- Bourges 3 p.m. Place Séraucourt
- Bourgoin-Jallieu 2 p.m. in front of the media library
- Brest 2 p.m. Place de Strasbourg
- Brive-la-Gaillarde 4 p.m. Place de la Guierle (in front of Cinema) + 2 p.m. workshops at the same place
- Caen 2 p.m. Theater
- Cahors 14h Tribunal
- Carcassone 14h30 Square André Chénier
- Chalons-en-Champagne Kiosk of the Grand Jard
- Chambéry 2 p.m. Palais de Justice
- Chantilly 9h Rond-point des lions (declared event)
- Chartres 2:30 p.m. Place Châtelet
- Châteauroux 2pm place?
- Chaumont 6 p.m. Town Hall
- Chazelles-sur-Lyon 1:30 p.m. Place de la Poterne
- Cherbourg 2 p.m. Place Charles de Gaulle
- Cholet 2:30 p.m. Place Travot
- Clermont-Ferrand 2 p.m. Place de Jaude
- Colmar 2 p.m. Place Rapp
- Compiègne 11 am Place Saint Jacques
- Davézieux 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Rond Point Subway
- Digne-les-Bains 2 p.m. Kiosk or Prefecture?
- Dijon 2 p.m. Place de la République
- Dourdan FRIDAY January 7 6 p.m. Under the Halle Place du Marché aux Herbes
- Draguignan 3 p.m. Sub-Prefecture
- Dreux 10am Place Mésirard
- Dunkirk 2 p.m. Place de la République
- Épinal 2 p.m. Prefecture
- Évreux 2 p.m. In front of the Town Hall
- Flers 2:30 p.m. Castle
- Foix 10am Allée Villote
- Gap 2 p.m. Nursery Kiosk
- Gif-sur-Yvette 10am Station (bus side)
- Grenoble 2 p.m. Place de Verdun
- Guéret 2 p.m. Place Bonnyaud
- Herblay 3 p.m. Rond point La Foirfouille Herblay
- Kingersheim 7:30 am Rond-Point Kaligone (Kalijaune) Morning
- La Rochelle 1:30 p.m. In front of the Aquarium
- La-Roche-sur-Yon 2 p.m. Place Napoléon
- Lannion 10am Quai l’Aiguillon
- Laval 2 p.m. Prefecture
- Le Havre 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Permanence at the local association Rue Casimir Delavigne
- + 2pm Demonstration in front of Lycée Marguerite Yourcenar?
- Le Mans 2 p.m. Marguerite Yourcenar High School
- Le Puy-en-Velay 2 p.m. Place du Breuil
- Lille 1 p.m. Static event at Euralille or Place de la République?
- Limoges 1 p.m. Place Jourdan
- Lisieux 10am Place Mitterrand
- Lons-le-Saunier 2 p.m. Place de la liberté
- Lorient 2 p.m. Town hall square in front of the theater
- Lyon 2 pm Place Bellecour, citizen procession “Lyon pour la Liberté” (new place => departure from Bellecour and not Brotteaux)
- Mâcon 10 a.m. Place Saint-Pierre (in front of the Town Hall)
- Marseille 13h Old Port
- Massy 10 a.m. In front of the Massy-Verrières station 2, rue Pierre Picard
- Melun 2 p.m. Place de la Préfecture
- Metz 2 p.m. Place de la République
- Mont-de-Marsan 2 p.m. Place Saint Roch
- Mont-Saint-Michel 2 p.m. Couesnon dyke / Barracks
- Montauban 2:30 p.m. In front of the prefecture
- Montbéliard 3 p.m. At la Roselière
- Montluçon 10h Faubourg Saint Pierre
- Montpellier 2 p.m. Place de la Comédie
- Morlaix 10am Town Hall
- Mulhouse 2 p.m. Place de la Bourse
- Nancy 14h Place Maginot
- Nantes 2 p.m. Crossroads of Trams
- Narbonne 2pm Les Barques
- Nevers 2 p.m. Place de la Resistance
- Nice 2 p.m. Garibaldi metro
- Nîmes 3pm Prefecture
- Niort 10h Place Pierre Semard
- Orleans 3 p.m. In front of the cathedral
- Palaiseau 10 am Sub-Prefecture. No demonstration this Saturday (Demonstration in Massy)
- Paris 2 p.m. => Place du Palais Royal, Unitary National Parade for Liberty, Sacred Union
- Pau 10h Place Verdun
- Perpignan 2 p.m. Place Catalogne
- Poitiers to come
- Quimper 2 p.m. Place de la Tourbie
- Reims 14h Place Boulingrin
- Rennes 1 p.m. Place de la République
- Revel 2:30 p.m. in front of the Chiquito
- Roanne 2 p.m. Town Hall Square
- Rodez 2 p.m. Esplanade des Rutènes
- Rouen 2 p.m. Town Hall
- Royan 3 p.m. Place General De Gaulle
- Saint-Brieuc 2 p.m. Place du Guesclin
- Saint-Denis-Barachois (Réunion) 11h => place?
- Saint-Dié-des-Vosges 2:30 p.m. 4 place du Géneral de Gaulle
- Saint-Étienne 2 p.m. Place Jean Jaurès
- Saint-Genis-Pouilly 3 p.m. Jean Monnet Cultural Space
- Saint-Germain-en-Laye 11 a.m. Church
- Saint-Lo 2 p.m. Green beach
- Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume 2 p.m. Fairground
- Saint-Nazaire 2 p.m. Town hall
- Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon 2 p.m. Square Joffre
- Saintes 2 p.m. Palace of Justice
- Strasbourg 13h30 Place Kléber
- Tarbes 2 p.m. In front of the Town Hall
- Thonon-les-Bains 2:30 p.m. Place des Arts
- Toulon 2 p.m. Place de la Liberté
- Toulouse 2 p.m. Metro Jean Jaurès
- Tours 2 p.m. Place Jean Jaurès
- Troyes 2 p.m. Prefecture
- Valence 12h in front of the Prefecture
- Vannes 2pm Esplanade Simone Veil au Port
- Versailles 11 am Town Hall
- Vesoul 2 p.m. Town Hall
- Vichy 2 p.m. Place de la Poste (in front of the Town Hall)
- Vienna 3.30 p.m. Jardin de Cybèle
- Villefranche sur Saône 10am Town Hall
