French approve anti-covid moves – far-right protest

While polls show that the majority of French citizens approve of the measures to encourage anti-covid vaccinations and over two million have registered for the jabs since President Macron’s, Monday announcement thousands of people led by extreme-right politicians demonstrated ton Saturday in different cities in France to protest against the new anti-covid measures, such as the requirement of a health certificate and mandatory vaccination for health professionals.

In total, the Interior Ministry counted 136 concentrations in which 114,000 people participated: 18,000 in Paris divided into various demonstrations and 96,000 in the rest of the country.

“Freedom”, “No to the health dictatorship”, “Macron resignation” shouted thousands of protesters gathered on the banks of the Seine River, in the center of Paris, in one of the three protests held in the capital.

French flags proliferated among the protesters and some wore yellow stars, like the ones that Jews were forced to wear in Nazi Germany, with the inscription “health certificate.”

“We are in a dictatorship, we are in a tyranny (…) This is called apartheid between vaccinated and unvaccinated,” said prominent far-right politician Florian Philippot, who was at the head of the march.

According to a poll published on Tuesday, the measures announced by Macron are approved by the majority of the French.

Since the announcements, more than two million French people have booked a turn to get vaccinated against Covid.

Around 35.5 million people – just over half of the French population – have so far received at least one dose of the covid vaccine, while 27 million have received two.