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discocrisco01

(1,665 posts)
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 09:22 AM Feb 2022

French convoys protesting virus rules move toward Paris

Source: Associated Press


PARIS (AP) — Protesters angry over pandemic restrictions drove toward Paris in scattered convoys of camper vans, cars and trucks Friday in an effort to blockade the French capital, despite a police ban.

The protesters organized online, galvanized in part by truckers who have blockaded Canada’s capital and blocked border crossings. But the French action has no clear leader or goal, and comes as months of protests against French government vaccination and other anti-virus rules have been waning.

Paris region authorities deployed more than 7,000 police officers to tollbooths and other key sites to try to prevent a blockade. They threatened heavy fines and other punishments for those who defy the protest ban, which authorities said was necessary to prevent “risk to public order.”

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-europe-blockades-e12488d7716d01cd9617308f73a18bfb

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French convoys protesting virus rules move toward Paris (Original Post) discocrisco01 Feb 2022 OP
total assholes Blues Heron Feb 2022 #1
Putin is smiling, gab13by13 Feb 2022 #2
You're damn right he is! Wuddles440 Feb 2022 #8
. dalton99a Feb 2022 #3
The Gendamerie Nationale and the CRS boys do not mess around. GoneOffShore Feb 2022 #4
First USA, then Canada, then England, now France. amb123 Feb 2022 #5
The right-wing crazy PatSeg Feb 2022 #7
Put them in a Free Breathing Zone bucolic_frolic Feb 2022 #6

gab13by13

(21,264 posts)
2. Putin is smiling,
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 09:34 AM
Feb 2022

his goal is for democracies to fail. Oligarchs are behind these blockades. A democracy is the one form of government where the unwashed are supposed to have the same rights as the oligarchs, that is upsetting to them.

Wait until these pawns find out which form of government has more freedom, a dictatorship or a democratic government.

Wuddles440

(1,120 posts)
8. You're damn right he is!
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 11:49 AM
Feb 2022

These fools think they'll all be seated at the table with all the oligarchs and their authoritarian lackeys once the fascist state gains absolute control. In reality, they'll be lucky if they're able to find enough scraps in the dumpsters of their masters to survive. It'll be the gilded age on steroids.

GoneOffShore

(17,337 posts)
4. The Gendamerie Nationale and the CRS boys do not mess around.
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 10:02 AM
Feb 2022

The Convoi de Bêtises (Stupidity Convoy) should know better.



amb123

(1,580 posts)
5. First USA, then Canada, then England, now France.
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 10:16 AM
Feb 2022

The anti-vax, anti-mask, COVID Deniers disease is spreading faster than the Virus.



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