The approval of the Constitutional Council for the extension of the health pass on Thursday reinforced their anger.
The words of the President of the Republic also: Friday, in a new video posted on Instagram and TikTok, Emmanuel Macron hammered out his message, "get vaccinated for your parents, your friends, your neighbor", deeming "irresponsible" to do other.
Anti-tax and anti-pass are gathered this Saturday for new demonstrations aimed at denouncing the situation imposed by the health pass which, from Monday, will apply in restaurants, hospitals and transport in particular.
In Paris, four processions planned this afternoon
At the beginning of the afternoon, the procession formed at the Pont de Neuilly metro station at the call of Nejeh Ben Farhat, a 42-year-old “yellow vest”, will set off towards the Place du Châtelet, in the center of Paris.
“It is the most risky event, especially of departures in wild processions.
We will pay particular attention to it, "a police source told AFP, also referring to" vigilance "around the Champs-Élysées.
On the first images available, the demonstrators, numerous, were channeled by the mobile gendarmes marching at the same pace.
PARIS - Demonstration against the #PassSanitaire: large crowd of demonstrators, the procession is largely supervised by the police.
# Manifs7aout # Manifestation7Aout pic.twitter.com/F1g0Wby192
- Clément Lanot (@ClementLanot) August 7, 2021
Another gathering is initiated by Florian Philippot, former number 2 of the FN (now RN) and president of the Patriots.
Sovereignist Nicolas Dupont-Aignan announced that he would be present at 2:30 p.m. in front of the Military School (VIIth), and "alongside the French who are demonstrating to obtain the withdrawal" of the pass.
The third gathering will leave at 2:30 p.m. from Place Edmond Rostand (6th arrondissement), halfway up Boulevard Saint-Michel, to reach the Royal Palace, near the Constitutional Council.
From there the last procession will start, heading for Place Pierre Laroque, which adjoins the Ministry of Health in the 7th arrondissement.
On July 31, the police had identified
204,090 demonstrators in France, including only 14,250 in Paris.
Elsewhere in France
It is therefore in the regions that the cumulative mobilization can be the most important. The kickoff of the day of mobilization was given by about twenty opponents of the health pass, who wanted to proclaim their disagreement with the President of the Republic. They managed to access a beach near Fort
Brégançon
.
In
Nice
(Alpes-Maritimes), several hundred demonstrators, gathered at the end of the morning at Place Masséna, strolled through the city, some denouncing the “dictatorship” or the “totalitarian regime” set up in France. Among them, people from Antibes, where they had marched a little earlier, and firefighters, are waiting to parade this afternoon, with Francis Lalanne. According to Nice-Matin, the demonstrators went to whistle in front of the Comédie de Nice where the comedian Jean-Marie Bigard performed a few days ago, regretting having to ask the spectators for a health test.
In
Aix-en-Provence
(Bouches-du-Rhône), according to the police, 2,500 people gathered in the streets of the city center.
More than the health pass, according to La Provence, they mainly question the severity of the pandemic and, therefore, the usefulness of vaccines.
Toulon
and
Montpellier are
demonstrating this afternoon, as in
Marseille
where the procession started from the Old Port at 2 p.m., with the firefighters at its head.
The firefighters of Sdis 13 leading the procession in Marseille, they denounce, among other things, the professional sanctions they risk in the event of non-vaccination.
# Manifs7aout #NonALaVaccinationObligatoire #PassSanitaire pic.twitter.com/adOWqPDqWc
- Amaury Baqué (@AmauryBaque) August 7, 2021
In
Lyon
, two calls for demonstrations were declared for the afternoon.
The prefecture banned the hypercentre from noon to 9 pm, "because of the violence that has occurred in recent weeks on the sidelines of illegal protest rallies".
Often, in the same city, two events are organized, one at the call of the Patriots of Florian Philippot, the other at the call of organizations that do not especially wish to walk alongside the extreme. right.
This is the case in
Nantes
and
Saint-Brieuc
, in particular.