It was the 15th consecutive Saturday of mobilization.
More than 40,000 people (40,090) demonstrated across the country against the health pass, according to the Interior Ministry.
This participation figure is close to that of last week.
The ministry recorded 171 actions, including around 5,000 demonstrators in Paris gathered in four different processions.
They were 670 in Nantes according to the prefecture of Loire-Atlantique, as well as 330 in Saint-Nazaire.
In Metz, 600 to 700 people were mobilized according to the Moselle prefecture, which specified that half of the procession had not respected the authorized route and headed for the motorway, which gave rise to a deployment police, but without notable incidents.
đź“· Anti-sanitary pass demonstration in Metz: some are trying to block the motorway
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- Le RĂ©publicain Lorrain (@lerepu) October 23, 2021
In the rest of Grand-Est, the prefectures have identified 750 people in Strasbourg, 850 in Colmar and 1,000 in Mulhouse.
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A person was arrested in metropolitan France, during a rally in Lille, and no member of the police was injured, according to the ministry.
Two people in custody in Guadeloupe
In Guadeloupe, two people who participated in a demonstration against the health pass, including a union leader, were taken into police custody for several hours “for rebellion”.
The Interior Ministry counted 40,610 demonstrators last Saturday.
They were more than 81,000 according to the militant collective Le Nombre Jaune, which subsequently publishes its own count.
#manifestation #NonAuPassSanitaire Definitive census of the mobilization of # October 16, 2021 against the #PassSanitaire: 81,642 demonstrators minimum out of 265 gatherings.
Details on our facebook group, https://t.co/gTmeomH2At…… #GiletsJaunes #YellowVests #LeNombreJaune pic.twitter.com/Gx4Uiy9C1o
- The Yellow Number (@LeNombreJaune) October 18, 2021
The attendance in these processions and gatherings had been declining steadily for several weeks.
On September 25, 60,000 people protested against the health pass imposed by the government to counter the Covid-19 epidemic, according to the authorities' report.
The National Assembly gave in the night of Wednesday to Thursday a first green light to the bill "sanitary vigilance", with the controversial possibility of resorting to the sanitary pass until July 31, 2022. The Minister of Health Olivier VĂ©ran has noted Friday a "small surge" of Covid cases, evoking around "5,000 cases per day" currently.
The incidence rate, an indicator that reflects the proportion of infected people in the population, increased this week after eight successive weeks of decline.
The incidence rate in France returns this evening above the alert threshold of 50, for the first time since September 30.
The upward trend in mid-October had been "broken" by the end of reimbursement of tests for some unvaccinated.
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- Nicolas Berrod (@nicolasberrod) October 23, 2021
The coronavirus epidemic has killed 117,441 people in France, where nearly 51 million people have received at least one injection of the vaccine.
