Last stand or rooting? This is the question that arises more and more acutely on the eve of this third Saturday of mobilization against the vaccination of caregivers and the health pass which will take place in Paris and in several dozen provincial towns. "The movement could be extinguished thanks to the crossover between vacationers", wants to believe a deputy of the majority. But, within the executive, the time is rather for concern. "We have to be vigilant," insists a minister. The base that supports Macron is broader than the opponents, but the anti are more radicalized. And with the antivax, we are faced with thought systems that will never adhere, so the dialogue is complicated. »Signs of this radicalization,the nauseating slogans comparing the antivax to the victims of the Shoah or apartheid or the threats against elected members of the majority and the degradation in their offices ...
Processions that remain fleshed out - 160,000 people expected, tomorrow, across France, according to Place Beauvau, a mobilization comparable to that of last week - a real risk of radicalization and symbols such as the return of demonstrators to the Champs -Elysées… So many reasons that concern the executive with, at the end of the day, the prospect of seeing a reoccurrence of a movement like that of the yellow vests which two years ago had fractured the country for months.
3000 police officers will be mobilized in Paris
To deal with possible violent slippages, more than 3,000 police officers will be mobilized this Saturday in the capital. "If the demonstrations continue or even resume after the holidays, there is a strong risk that they will be taken over by the ultras," said one at the Ministry of the Interior. Territorial intelligence also notes a great diversity within the demonstrators, members of the ultra left and the ultra right, political activists, caregivers, families with children as well as retirees and professionals affected by the sanitary measures.
"The whole issue for us is not to tilt the most moderate
(Editor's note: those who are not antivax but who waited a little before getting vaccinated)
, we must not point them, slips a member of the government. To do this, you have to relax the atmosphere and not be too strict or be too much of a lesson-giver. For that, Emmanuel Macron's speech in Polynesia was perhaps not useful ... "
In Paris, four events are planned, including the one at the call of Florian Philippot, the boss of the Patriots, and former right-hand man of Marine Le Pen. "Emmanuel Macron is annoyed by the cynicism of some to exploit the demonstrations", confides a close to the executive. Last week, the health bill overcame the parliamentary test, it remains, on August 5, to obtain the green light from the Constitutional Council. If the text is validated by the wise, the law should enter into force on August 9. But the power of contamination of the Delta variant is faster: containment and curfew measures have already been taken in several overseas territories ...
