On Saturday, above 100,000 people remonstrated throughout France against the updated measures of the government to force the population to receive vaccine jabs and control highly transmissible and dangerous delta strains of the coronavirus.
In Paris (France Capital), individual protest mobs by the far left and the far right-wound from various parts of the city. Moreover, protests were even started in Lille in the north, Strasbourg in the east, Montpellier in the south, and elsewhere.
Most of the people responded to calls to take the streets by Florian Philippot, the former right hand of Marine Le Pen, who declared the previous month that he will take part in the upcoming presidential race of 2022. Furthermore, people grouped a stone’s throw from museum, Louvre Museum, and they loudly said ‘Freedom’ and ‘Macron, Clear Off!’ Protestors even hit metal spoons on saucepans.
He has conducted regular but small demonstrations against the country’s government and its handling of pandemic COVID-19. Saturday’s protest gathered a greater and more diverse mob of people widely disaffected with politics. Yellow vest demonstrator fury over apparent economic inequality, medical staff, far-right supporters, and royalists.
People criticized government’s decision to make vaccine mandatory
On Monday, protestors condemned the country’s government’s decision to make Coronavirus vaccines mandatory for all medical employees and demand a ‘health pass’ showing people are completely inoculated, people who have recovered from the Coronavirus to access any restaurants and several other public spots. Besides this, the government of Emmanuel Macron is showing a draft law to protect the new Coronavirus measures.
A town councilor, Bruno Auquier, who resides on the outskirts of Paris, said he will never get inoculated. He added that people should wake up. He even questioned the Coronavirus vaccine’s safety.
The country needs some inoculations to start in public school, the town councilor promised to pull his two kids out of the public school in case if COVID vaccines became compulsory. He further said that these novel Coronavirus measures are the last straw.
The Government of France has threatened its population about a highly transmissible and dangerous Coronavirus new strain (known as delta variant), which officials warn could once again ramp up pressure on medical centers in case if people of France are not inoculated against the pandemic. It’s not an Individual concern as the country has already dealt with great damage because the Coronavirus has taken around 111,000 lives and significantly destroyed the economy of France.