The police fired tear gas to disperse the demonstrators in Paris. Thousands of people protested throughout the process France Exceeding the new coronavirus limit.
The protest started in the French capital on Wednesday morning as the annual military parade of the traditional Bastille Day parade is being held on the famous Champs Elysées. President Emmanuel Macron watched the parade.
The demonstrators were dissatisfied with the decision announced on Monday Mandatory health workers to vaccinate And carry the vaccine health pass for most public places.
For example, people who have not been vaccinated need to obtain a negative test result before they can enter a restaurant.
Since the announcement Record number of French appointments Used for Covid-19 jabs.
“This is in the name of freedom” is a message from some protesters.
In an area of the French capital, the police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.
The county police said in a tweet that the announced route had not been followed, condemning the protesters for “throwing projectiles” and arson.
Throughout Paris, about 2,250 people protested, while other demonstrations took place in Toulouse, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Nantes and other places. The French authorities set the total number of protesters at 19,000.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, there were 53 different protests across France.
“Down with the dictatorship” and “Down with the Health Pass” protesters chanted.
One of them, Yann Fontaine, a 29-year-old notary from the Béry region in central France, said that he came to Paris to demonstrate and believed that imposing a health pass was equivalent to “isolation.”
“Macron is playing with fear, which is disgusting. I know that vaccinations are now only to take children to the movies, not to protect others from the severe form of Covid infection,” he said.
The French government on Tuesday defended its decision to test for Covid on unvaccinated people who want to eat in restaurants or travel long distances because the country wants to avoid a surge in cases in the more contagious Delta.
“There is no vaccine obligation, this is the biggest inducement,” government spokesman Gabriel Atal said at the time.
“It’s hard for me to understand that in a country where 11 vaccines are already mandatory… this might be considered a dictatorship,” he said, adding that after a year of vaccine research, “the time for doubt has long passed. .” “.
For teenagers who have only been able to accept jabs since mid-June, the rules will be relaxed-“make summer hell impossible,” Attar said.
According to the Elabe poll released on Tuesday, the new security measures have received overwhelming support from the French people.
So far, about 35.5 million people—almost half of the French population—have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
At the beginning of the pandemic, France had the highest level of suspicion of vaccines among developed countries.
