Health anti-pass: 121,000 demonstrators this Saturday according to the Interior Ministry, the mobilization … – BFMTV

Mobilization continues to decline a few days before the entry into force of the vaccination obligation for the health professions.

This is their ninth week of mobilization. Tens of thousands of demonstrators again took to the streets of many cities in France this Saturday to denounce the health pass, a few days before the entry into force of the vaccination obligation for the health professions.

But after three weekends of decline, the dynamic continues in the same direction since the Ministry of the Interior recorded this Saturday 121,000 demonstrators in France, including 19,000 in Paris. Last week they were 140,000, 165,000 the week before and 175,000 seven days earlier.

Still according to the same source, 96 people were arrested during demonstrations today in Paris alone. 3 members of the security forces were also injured.

In the capital, this motley coalition of anti-ax, close to the “yellow vests”, far-right activists or, more generally, political opponents of the government formed four processions.

“Macron, your pass, we don’t want it”

One of them set off at the beginning of the afternoon from the avenue de Breteuil, a mixture of “yellow vests” or activists from the South or far left union, with cries of “Macron, your pass, we do not want it “,” Macron resignation “or” No to dictatorship “.

In its ranks, nursing staff, forced to be vaccinated from September 15 on pain of being suspended.

“We are up against the wall. On September 15, colleagues and I will be suspended without pay. The health system did not need that”, despairs Corinne, nursing assistant for 30 years, from Franche-Comté to demonstrate in Paris.

These demonstrations come the day after the indictment for “endangering the life of others” of the former Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn, as part of the investigation opened by the Court of Justice of the Republic ( CJR) on government management of the Covid-19 epidemic.

“Agnès Buzyn is just a puppet. She obeys orders,” commented Rachel, a music therapist who was demonstrating in Rennes. “I hope that all political personnel who have accepted the manipulation of a global pseudo-scientifism will stand trial.”

“We can put them all with her!”, Added Pascale Guyot, nursing assistant and FO union representative. “There is not one who managed the crisis well and it continued with Véran”, she added in the middle of the procession of Clermont-Ferrand.

Tear gas grenades in Paris

A few incidents were reported in Paris at midday around the Champs-Elysées, where the police fired tear gas canisters to deny access to demonstrators. Several people were arrested, according to a police source.

The symbolic threshold of 50 million people having received a first dose of vaccine, planned by the government for the end of August and then the beginning of September, has still not been reached.

Mandatory since July 21 in places hosting more than 50 people, the health pass has been extended to access to hospitals, except emergencies, bars, large shopping centers and 1.8 million employees in contact with the public.