Police fired water cannon and tear gas on rowdy protesters in Paris, although most gatherings were orderly.
Most French adults are fully vaccinated and multiple polls indicate a majority of French people support the new measures. But not everyone.Protesters chanting "Liberty! Liberty!" gathered at Bastille plaza and marched through eastern Paris in one of several demonstrations Saturday around France. Thousands also joined a gathering across the Seine River from the Eiffel Tower organized by a former top official in Marine Le Pen's anti-immigration party.
Marchers included far-right politicians and activists as well as others angry at President Emmanuel Macron. Their anger focused on a French "health pass" now required to enter museums, movie theaters and tourist sites. The bill under debate would expand the pass requirement to all restaurants and bars in France and some other venues.
Lawmakers are divided over how far to go in imposing health passes or mandatory vaccinations. More than 111,000 people with the virus have died in France, and the country is now seeing about 20,000 new infections a day, up from just a few thousand a day in early July.
You can choose but a no to vaccine is the immoral choice to take. And this is why you might lose that choice.....I.e. seatbelts
Canadians protest 😂
Good, vive la liberte'!
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🙄 pfft! First? NOT! Regrets? - they will 😉👊
Look at the slugs that attend these rallies. Who the heck wants to hang out with these people? Pick better friends
chrissaccoccia1
Far-right? B.S
If you aren’t vaccinated you will be restricted. Still your choice.
They're pissed off because they can't get a free PCR test anymore and skate by not getting vaxd. The PCR test costs €49 now. Encouraged 10's of thousands of them to get vaxd the next day.
Headlines shouldn’t be this hard to get right.
Then don't be surprised if your NOT FREE to travel and enter businesses that still using COVID protocols.
Get your gd vaccine and shut up. Hope we have vaccine passports soon!
Good for them! At least they know how to stand up for their freedom
The fact the media and governments are mad ppl want rights should scare the shit out of everyone. We are 4 steps away from boxcars