They were 19,000 to demonstrate on July 14 across the country.
They were more than 114,000 Saturday in the streets of France.
In three days, the mobilization against vaccination and the health pass has grown and hardened in France.
136 demonstrations were organized throughout the territory according to the Ministry of the Interior.
2,500 demonstrators in Nantes, 2,000 in Rennes, or 4,500 in Marseille, they were also nearly 1,000 in Lyon, where tensions took place with the police.
Receiving projectiles, the latter responded with tear gas.
It was in Paris that the largest gathering was held with 18,000 people gathered.
In this procession led by the former FN Florian Philippot and the sovereignist Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, the demonstrators carried somewhat different messages.
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Some were there because “covidosceptics”, others because “anti-vaccines”, while still others were mainly mobilized against the health past.
Crying out for "dictatorship" and the attack on freedoms, some did not hesitate to dare comparisons with the persecution of Jews during the Second World War, sometimes wearing a yellow star.
An analogy that made the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Licra) jump.
"To wear a fanciful yellow star is to make fun of the victims of the Holocaust,"
she said in a tweet.
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Within this crowd which demanded the resignation of Emmanuel Macron, figures of the “yellow vests” movement have emerged.
Among them, those of Jacline Mouraud or Jérôme Rodrigues, who thus intend to resume service by mingling with the protesters.
Worried merchants and restaurateurs
Their ranks could grow further: traders and restaurateurs who are worried about the way in which the sanitary pass at the entrances to their establishments will have to be controlled and the consequences on their turnover could join in this growing anger. in the street.
A risk that the government fears, which is presenting these new anti-Covid measures to the Council of Ministers on Monday.
These will then be debated in Parliament.
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The other risk is to see elected officials who support this health system targeted.
Already several of them - like LREM deputies Alexandre Freschi and Jean-Marc Zulesi - have received threats.
The two parliamentarians also posted the messages received on social networks.
“I am armed up to my neck.
Be careful what you are going to vote on concerning the health pass… ”
, can we read on one of them, which has the email address“ mort@mort.mort ”.
Justice seized for appeal to violence
In parallel with these threatening remarks, demonstrators on Friday invaded the office of the President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand (LREM), in Châteaulin in Finistère.
After this intrusion and the death threats against his colleagues, the latter filed a complaint.
Faced with these attacks, the remarks made this weekend by MP Martine Wonner, ex-LREM, could not fail to follow.
During the Parisian demonstration, she castigated
"segregation"
between vaccinated and unvaccinated, before urging the demonstrators to
"lay siege to parliamentarians"
and
"invade their offices".
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In the hours which followed this call for violence, the boss of LREM deputies Christophe Castaner asked Richard Ferrand to take legal action.
Several members of the Liberties and Territories parliamentary group, to which Martine Wonner now belongs, demanded his exclusion.
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, for his part, asked the prefects to strengthen protective measures towards elected officials.
But the latter are not the only targets.
The day before the Saturday demonstrations, a Covid-19 vaccination center was vandalized and put out of use in Lans-en-Vercors in Isère.
"Vaccine = genocide"
, could one read then on one of the facades of the establishment.
