French Police Clash With Anti-Virus Pass Protesters In Paris
Source: AP News
PARIS (AP) -- Thousands of people protested France's special virus pass with marches through Paris and other French cities on Saturday. Most demonstrations were peaceful, but sporadic clashes with riot police marked protests in the French capital.
Some 3,000 security forces deployed around Paris for a third weekend of protests against the pass that will be needed soon to enter restaurants and other places. Police took up posts along the Champs-Elysees to guard against an invasion of the famed avenue.
With virus infections spiking and hospitalizations rising, French lawmakers have passed a bill requiring the pass in most places as of Aug. 9. Polls show a majority of French support the pass, but some are adamantly opposed. The pass requires a vaccination or a quick negative test or proof of a recent recovery from COVID-19 and mandates vaccine shots for all health care workers by mid-September.
Across the Alps, thousands of anti-vaccine pass demonstrators marched in Italian cities including Rome, Milan and Naples for the second consecutive week. Milan demonstrators stopped outside the city's courthouse chanting "Truth! "Shame!" and "Liberty!" while in Rome they marched behind a banner reading "Resistance." Those demonstrations were noisy but peaceful...
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- Protestors hold up a banner which reads 'freedom' in French during a demonstration in Paris, France, Sat., July 31, 2021. Demonstrators gathered in several cities in France on Saturday to protest against the COVID-19 pass, which grants vaccinated individuals greater ease of access to venues.
bahboo
(16,336 posts)liberty my ass.....
bucolic_frolic
(43,123 posts)Too much video from around the world. In the list of things to protest over, vaccinations to keep you alive are insanely trivial
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)In Japan there were protests that wanted to stop the Olympics due to a rapid spread in Japan recently. They wear masks all tje time and have for decades.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/japan/
appalachiablue
(41,118 posts)maybe FB is playing a large part, see #4.
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)only definatelies. Fuckerberg is greedy, all powerful and egocentric. He is basically acting like a Repub.
appalachiablue
(41,118 posts)can't believe people swallow the conspiracy crap and all. I'll explore it, perhaps.
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)PSPS
(13,590 posts)WHITT
(2,868 posts)appalachiablue
(41,118 posts)henbuck
(46 posts)The virus is very contagious and so is apparently ignorance and stupidity. Vaccination should be mandated everywhere. Nobody asked or cared when I got those shots in my arm in grade school.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)to screw everyone else because I wanna go to a cafe.
There are 2 Greta horrors I have:
1) democracy will not survive the 20th century
2) point one might not be a bad thing.