The environmentalist mayor of Besançon Anne Vignot announced on Sunday July 18 that she had lodged a complaint against the people who took down the French flag from the town hall during a demonstration against the health pass, which had taken place the day before.
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“
Protests are a right because we are in a country where rights and duties are guaranteed by the republican values of our constitution.
The French flag is the representation.
We will not be able to tolerate such an act
”, declared Anne Vignot in a press release.
"Dictatorship"
More than 110,000 people demonstrated on Saturday across France against the health pass, among others, which they called a
health
“
dictatorship
”.
In recent days, "
messages of threats against parliamentarians and elected officials are multiplying in the context of anti-vaccine claims
," wrote the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin in a note to the prefects asking them to strengthen protective measures for elected officials.
About fifteen anti-vaccine demonstrators thus invaded the office of President of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand (LREM) in Châteaulin (Finistère) on Friday, before being put to flight by a gendarmerie patrol.