“The vaccine isn’t the solution,” said retiree Helene Vierondeels, who attended a right-wing protest in Paris.
“We should rather be stopping the closures of hospital beds and continuing the barrier measures,” she added.
In Bordeaux, several protesters said they were refusing to get their children vaccinated, just days before the start of the new school year.
“We aren’t laboratory rats,” said one 11-year-old boy who was marching with his father.
“We live in a free country,** there are no figures that justify mass vaccinations**,” his father said, likening the increased pressure to vaccinate to rape.
total of 160,000 people protested across France on Saturday, the interior ministry said, angered at the country’s COVID health pass system which they say unfairly restricts the unvaccinated.
By early evening the authorities had logged 222 separate protest actions, including 14,500 people who turned out in Paris.
From https://english.alarabiya.net/coronavirus/2021/08/29/Around-160-000-protest-across-France-against-COVID-19-rules
“The vaccine isn’t the solution,” said retiree Helene Vierondeels, who attended a right-wing protest in Paris.
“We should rather be stopping the closures of hospital beds and continuing the barrier measures,” she added.
In Bordeaux, several protesters said they were refusing to get their children vaccinated, just days before the start of the new school year.
“We aren’t laboratory rats,” said one 11-year-old boy who was marching with his father.
“We live in a free country,** there are no figures that justify mass vaccinations**,” his father said, likening the increased pressure to vaccinate to rape.
total of 160,000 people protested across France on Saturday, the interior ministry said, angered at the country’s COVID health pass system which they say unfairly restricts the unvaccinated.
By early evening the authorities had logged 222 separate protest actions, including 14,500 people who turned out in Paris.