Anti-health pass demonstrations: clashes in Paris and Toulouse for this 9th Saturday

" We are here !

Even if Macron doesn't want to, we're here.

The song inherited from the repertoire of yellow vests reminded us once again this Saturday in Paris and everywhere in France: the anti-sanitary pass protesters do not intend to give up in their fight against anti-health measures. Covid.

They tried to demonstrate it

during this ninth day of mobilization.

The authorities had anticipated a surge in the number of demonstrators, predicting some 170,000 protesters in all the processions, including 30,000 in Paris.

Last week, they were 145,000 demonstrators pounding the pavement, 165,000 the previous week and 175,000 seven days earlier.

Read alsoCities mobilized, profiles and demands ... X-ray of the anti-sanitary and anti-ax movement

At the end of the afternoon, the total number of demonstrators had not yet filtered, but the first figures relayed did not seem to point in the direction of an increase.

In Lyon, for example, the prefecture reported some 2,100 demonstrators for the two separate processions.

The Latest News from Alsace also identified a local drop in mobilization, concentrated in the cities of Strasbourg, Colmar, Sélestat and Mulhouse.

A group of yellow vests attacked in Toulouse

Some tensions erupted in Paris, where several people were arrested according to a police source.

The police, targeted by projectile fire, responded with tear gas canisters.

PARIS - The demonstrators force a barrage of gendarme: tear gas and projectiles.

Tensions continue.

# Paris11septembre # Manifs11septembre # Manif11septembre #PassSanitaire https://t.co/Amqwmxncmz pic.twitter.com/C7B18jzs4R

- Clément Lanot (@ClementLanot) September 11, 2021

Outbursts of another level of violence have occurred in Toulouse.

Demonstrators, including some yellow vests according to our colleagues from La Dépêche du Midi, were attacked with iron bars by individuals identified as belonging to the far-right movement.

Health professionals “up to the wall”

For health professionals, forced to be vaccinated from September 15 as required by the law promulgated on August 5, time is running out in any case.

“We are up against the wall.

On September 15, colleagues and I will be suspended without pay.

The health system did not need that ”, despairs Corinne, nursing assistant for 30 years, came from Franche-Comté to demonstrate in Paris.

To read also Vaccination obligation of caregivers: the fight of Tiphaine who refuses the injection

In Strasbourg, firefighters and caregivers carried a banner with the slogan "To save or to perish: yes!"

Stung or kicked: no!

".

In the Bouches-du-Rhône, perhaps a sign of a turning point in the reasons for these gatherings, Provence noted more "demands linked to the rules of dismissal, unemployment insurance and pension reform" in the Marseille procession this Saturday.

They were "several hundred" to gather on the outskirts of the Old Port.

In the processions, the name of Agnes Buzyn also returned, the day after the indictment of the former Minister of Health for "endangering the lives of others", as part of the investigation into government management of the Covid-19 epidemic.

The voice of French demonstrators also seems to inspire Monegasque neighbors, whose mobilization is gaining momentum. Grouped behind a large banner soberly signed "No to the sanitary pass and the vaccination obligation", they were between 450 and 500 to demonstrate on the Rock, according to police figures. The demonstration, noisy but very civilized, respected the allotted time of one hour and all the participants wore a mask.