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“Freedom Convoy”: Protesters Failed to Replicate the Canadian Model

2022-02-12T21:59:46.177Z


REPORT – The movement, inspired by the one that paralyzed Ottawa, demanded as much the abolition of the vaccination pass as the improvement of purchasing power. He finally limited himself to temporarily blocking the Champs-Élysées.


I hear on certain channels that you have to go to demonstrations.

Rémi gave a watchword with a point of convergence, see you later

”.

Saturday morning at 10:30 a.m., the Zello walkie-talkie heats up and the first messages arrive.

The same morning, Rémi Monde, one of the figureheads of the self-proclaimed "freedom convoy" movement, "proposed" to all the demonstrators, who spent the night around Paris, to converge on the Champs Élysées, in the 8th arrondissement, by car or on foot.

A gathering place which has not been validated by the authorities, unlike five other processions.

Read alsoLa Semaine du FigaroVox – What is the “freedom convoy” the name of?

Thousands of French people mobilized this Saturday, February 12 in Paris, joining by road from all over France by car, on the model of “freedom convoys” in Canada, the usual weekend anti-pass demonstrations.

With demands as diverse as the abolition of the vaccination pass, the detaxation of fuel or the improvement of purchasing power.

While…

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Source: lefigaro

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