In Paris, the hard and heterogeneous core of the protest against the health pass – archyde

This is the hard core of the protest against the health pass. In the streets of Paris, Saturday September 11, in the middle of a crowd still as composite, with extremely varied profiles, many of them former “yellow vests”, many demonstrators marched for the fifth, sixth, sometimes ninth consecutive time, to protest against the health policy of the government. A lasting mobilization for the most motivated, the most committed, who say they want to come back next Saturday, but above all the sign of the failure to expand the movement beyond the most protesters.

In Paris, where the parades organized by “yellow vests” were marked by violence against the police, the Prefecture of police counted 19,000 demonstrators in four separate parades. Across the country, the Interior Ministry reported 121,000 demonstrators, against 140,000 the previous week and 237,000 at its peak on August 7.

Guillaume Schneider, 44, a school teacher in the Paris suburbs, demonstrated for the eighth time, against the establishment of the health pass, against Emmanuel Macron, against the media. “The defenders of freedoms, there are very few”, says the teacher, saying he is very annoyed by the “Guilt speech” and of “Propaganda”.

He refused to be vaccinated against Covid-19 – but he carried out all the other compulsory vaccines for him, as for his son. “We do not know everything, we do not know the side effects, we just need the media to recognize it, and recognize when they make mistakes, as on the role of the pangolin or the idea, qualified as a conspirator at the beginning, on the role of the Wuhan laboratory. ” A man on the left, he voted for Chirac in 2002 to block the National Front (FN) and abstained in 2017 in the duel between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. In 2022, if he does not abstain, he will vote for Florian Philippot, the former number two of the FN, today at the head of the movement “Les Patriotes”.

In the procession, which shouts “Resistance”, ” freedom “, “Revolution”, and who sings regularly The Marseillaise, Marlène Darcel, 44, teacher in a vocational high school in the Yvelines, expresses her “Indignation” facing “Control of the people” established, according to her, with that of the sanitary pass. This teacher has paraded six times since July. “We infantilize the people, we do not listen to them”, she explains.

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