Tens of thousands of French protestors march against Covid-19 in Paris on Saturday.
QUICK FACTS:
- French citizens are protesting new rules announced by the government earlier this week.
- The new rules include mandatory vaccination for health workers and an obligation for citizens to bring in a health pass for most public places, according to Euronews.
- About 1,500 people attended in Paris.
- 5,000 and 4,250 protesters were counted by authorities in the southern cities of Montpellier and Marseille.
- A number of right-wing party leaders joined the protest, notes Euronews.
WHAT THE PROTESTORS ARE SAYING:
- One demonstrator’s shirt read, “No to compulsory vaccination, freedom violated!”
- Another’s sign said, “Macron, no to the health dictatorship.”
- In Marseille, protesters held a banner portraying politicians’ faces, including French President Emmanuel Macron with Hitler’s mustache.
- “We are not anti-vaccine at all. We just want everyone to have the freedom to be vaccinated or not. PCR tests may be enough and then we must keep them free,” two shopping center employees said.
