In Paris, many French flags and regional flags - Corsican, Breton - floated above the crowd of demonstrators who marched on Saturday against the vaccine pass and health restrictions.
Most of the banners displayed hostility both to the past and to the vaccines themselves: "It's not a virus they want to control, it's you" in Paris, or "Democracy in danger", "Toxic vaccine ” in Rennes… Because on the same day, thousands of health passes were deactivated, for lack of a vaccine reminder against Covid-19.
Procession in Paris against the #PassVaccinal.
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For all these demonstrators, the challenge was to do at least as well as the previous Saturday: in the wake of the declarations of Emmanuel Macron, decided to "piss off" the non-vaccinated, 105,200 demonstrators had then been counted by the ministry. of the Interior throughout France.
Four times more than the 25,000 of the previous mobilization on December 18.
This Saturday, the demonstrators were 1,300 in Lyon, 1,140 in Nantes, 1,000 in Bordeaux, 950 in Rennes, 750 in Marseille, 650 in Clermont-Ferrand, according to the police or the prefectures.
The figures are not yet known in Paris, where the most important procession was that of the Les Patriotes movement, of the pro-Frexit presidential candidate Florian Philippot.
