For the ninth consecutive Saturday, the number of protesters against health measures was down in France.
About 45,000 demonstrators (45,300) marched across the country to protest the health pass for the 13th consecutive Saturday, the Interior Ministry said, a turnout figure down slightly from last week .
Beauvau had identified 47,935 demonstrators the previous Saturday.
In total, 14 people were arrested during these gatherings, including four in Paris, the same source said.
In the capital, 5,300 people beat the pavement, as many as last Saturday, separated into two processions.
45,300 anti- # PassSanitaire demonstrators (including 5,300 in Paris) marched this Saturday, according to the Interior Ministry.
It's almost as much as last Saturday but down for the 9th week in a row (and since the pass went into effect) .https: //t.co/4q4OH9cCaT
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In Strasbourg, around 850 people, according to the prefecture, marched to the cry of "Freedom, no dictatorship" and placards in hand ("France, be dignified, vaccine freedom" or "Rather fine and prison than stung").
Still in the Bas-Rhin, demonstrators carried out a snail operation on the A4, between Saint-Pierre and the Schwindratzheim toll, where they towed for two hours.
In the streets of Lille, the prefecture counted 400 demonstrators.
In the procession, firefighters and caregivers, including some carrying signs indicating that they were suspended for lack of having presented a health pass.
Other events in Italy and Switzerland
This 13th Saturday of mobilization against the health measures put in place by the government comes before the delisting, from October 15, of Covid-19 screening tests for French insured over 18 who cannot justify a vaccination or a medical prescription.
The Covid-19 epidemic has killed more than 117,000 people in France, where more than 50.6 million people have received at least one injection of the vaccine.
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In Europe, other demonstrations against the health pass have been identified.
Thus, several thousand people marched in the center of Rome to protest against the obligation from October 15 of the health pass in all workplaces.
The demonstration, in which members of extreme right-wing groups also took part, was punctuated by some clashes with the police.
Same leitmotif in Switzerland where thousands of people demonstrated in Geneva.
"There are a lot of people, but we expected it because there are a lot of people who are starting to find all these measures bizarre, which are totally out of line with reality," said Chloé Frammery, Geneva teacher and figure of the Covid-19 anti-vaccine movement in Switzerland, which mentioned the presence of “5,000 people”.
