Whether restaurant, cinema or train journey – in France there is a new and stricter proof requirement in many places. This arouses anger in many citizens.
The displeasure about stricter Corona rules has driven many people to the streets in France for the fifth weekend in a row.
The authorities expected a total of around 250,000 demonstrators across the country on Saturday, more than twice as many as at the beginning of the protests in mid-July. The anger of the participants is directed against the compulsory vaccination for health workers and recently extended to almost all areas of public life.
For example, the French have to present a so-called health passport for going to restaurants or the cinema, long-distance train travel and in some places also for shopping in large shopping centers. This provides evidence of either a corona vaccination, a survived illness or a current negative test. Since corona tests, like in Germany, will be chargeable from mid-October, critics denounce mandatory vaccination through the back door.
The protests were initially peaceful. On television pictures from the station BFMTV from Paris, many national flags could be seen above the crowd, as well as the rainbow flag. In Aix-en-Provence the demonstrators shouted “Liberté!” (“Freedom!”) And in Lyon a man held up a sign to the camera that read: “Let’s save our children from Pfizer!”
The demonstrations attract people with the most varied of attitudes, said the political scientist Jean-Yves Camus of the German press agency. Among them are supporters of the extreme right and members of the “yellow vests” movement, which had once formed because of the threat of fuel price increases. Conspiracy theorists who deny the pandemic are therefore a minority.
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