About 40,000 people marched against the health pass in France, a stable participation – franceinfo

Stable mobilization. Some 40,090 people demonstrated Saturday, October 23 across the country against the health pass for the fifteenth consecutive Saturday of mobilization, according to the Ministry of the Interior. The ministry recorded 171 actions, including around 5,000 demonstrators in Paris gathered in four different processions.

They were 670 in Nantes according to the prefecture of Loire-Atlantique, as well as 330 in Saint-Nazaire. In Metz, 600 to 700 people mobilized according to the prefecture, which specified that half of the procession had not followed the authorized route and headed for the motorway, which gave rise to a deployment of forces order, but without notable incidents.

In the rest of the Grand Est, the prefectures have identified 750 people in Strasbourg, 850 in Colmar and 1,000 in Mulhouse. A person was arrested in metropolitan France, during a rally in Lille, and no member of the police was injured, according to the ministry.

The Interior Ministry counted 40,610 demonstrators last Saturday. They were more than 81,000 according to the militant collective Le Nombre Jaune, which subsequently publishes its own count. The attendance in these processions and gatherings had been declining steadily for several weeks. On September 25, 60,000 people protested against the health pass imposed by the government to counter the Covid-19 epidemic, according to the authorities’ report.