Thousands have taken to the streets in France to protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s extreme plans to force all health workers to get vaccinated against Covid and to prevent the unvaccinated from visiting restaurants, shopping malls and hospitals, and from using trains and planes. Unmoved by these demonstrations, French Prime Minister Jean Castex says people should be “convinced” to take the vaccine “at all costs”. Reuters has the story.
Macron this week announced sweeping measures to fight a rapid surge in coronavirus infections, which protesters say infringe the freedom of choice of those who do not want the vaccination.
The measures had already prompted demonstrations earlier this week, forcing police to use tear gas to disperse protesters.
“Everyone is sovereign in his own body. In no way does a president of the Republic have the right to decide on my individual health,” said one protester in Paris who identified herself as Chrystelle.
Marches, which also took place in France’s largest cities such as Marseille, Lyon and Lille as well as many smaller centres, also included “yellow vest” protesters seeking to revive the anti-Government movement curbed by coronavirus lockdowns.
Visiting a centre in Anglet in southwestern France, Prime Minister Jean Castex said vaccination, which is not mandatory for the general public for now, is the only way to fight the virus.
“I hear the reluctance that arises but I think that we must at all costs convince all our fellow citizens to be vaccinated, it is the best way to cope to this health crisis,” Castex said.
Despite the strength of the protests, an Ipsos-Sopra Steria poll released on Friday found more than 60% of French people agree with mandatory vaccination for health workers, as well as a requirement for a health pass in some public places.
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I think someone needs to remind President Macron what happens to those who try to dictate to the masses how they live their lives. His measures are in clear breach of all three of the democratic principles that have served France pretty well since the revolution: Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Off with his head!
Oui
Tout de suite!
1789 and 1793.
Let Macron’s head eat cake.
Mmmm cake
that was before… people are very cushy now.. domesticated
Vive La France…with the crowds pushing back the riot police!
Not on the BBC they didnt
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“French Prime Minister Jean Castex says people should be “convinced” to take the vaccine “at all costs”.”
You cannot convince someone by coercion or ‘at all costs’.
That’s basically an oxymoron.
It is very obvious now that these people have just gone completely bonkers- add the similarly rabid Irish, Greek, German etc. governments and officials to that assessment to.
To me, they are now very reminiscent of Hitler on 19.3.1945, when he gave Speer the Nero decree and went totally mad in his bunker shortly afterwards.
All we need now are some Speers, who recognize their superiors madness, rediscover their own moral compass and integrity- if only to cover their own backsides- and go on to ignore and sabotage their destructive plans instead of executing them.
Vive La France, Vive la liberte’.All good wishes from England.
Never have the words sounded more relevant:
Aux armes citoyens
Formez vos bataillons
Marchons, marchons,
qu’un sang impur
abreuve nos sillons
Go France! dont put up with it! LIBERTE
Who would have thought the French would lead the way .
I listened to the ask the questions forum today. Worth listening and watching. right said Fred twitter linked to it.
Mr T Young was one of the speakers he did good
If the French can show the way for the rest of us and Europe it will be redemption for WWII.
Good to see this getting some coverage.
A message to those who run LS:
I get the feeling that we are reaching a critical point. The official narrative and related legislative changes across many parts of the world have been turned up a notch in the last few days.
We are beginning to see substantial protests. It may be now or never to make a meaningful challenge to the evil forces that are intent on destroying life as we know it.
Now is the time for you to raise your game and to be a significant part of this challenge. You do not need to condone violence, though I think we are inevitably heading for this, but you can give significant publicity to what is now going on in many countries and any progress being made as a result of the protests.
Yes . Peaceful but notch up a level
Peaceful won’t hack it.
Would love to see another French revolution and Macron’s head on the guillotine! It’s obviously not legal, just need lawyers to argue the case. How can hospitals refuse access to sick people because they didn’t take experminetal drugs they were told to!?
I am against the death penalty.
But St. Helena, the Falklands or a Siberian Gulag for life would be most appropriate for him and all others driving and executing this sinister agenda.
Yes – but there are always exceptional cases! Pour encourager les autres, n’est-ce pas?
There will be very many exceptional cases, all in need of a lamp post.
Deporting macron to Saint Helena would have a nice bit of irony to it, however we must remember that compared to the diktats we are now seing Napoleon had a great deal of respect for basic liberties.
And not just Macrons head on a spike. All the western leaders need reminding who their real bosses are, as they seem to have forgotten!
I think they know…
Its the Bovidiots and Bovaxxers who lead the polls. Or so we are told by the polls. I believe its about 80-20 once again. Or so they tell us. Mooo Baaa! We know best, we care about you.
The first putsch is now in Ireland and France, two nations with a strong history of resistance and revolution. When the G7 puppets met in Devon did they use short straws or poker to decide which countries would roll out the vax pass first?
Whatever the case, the resistance has to begin here and it looks promising. This is where the authoritarians always get sloppy. They will resort to violence and this will only weaken their cause and increase the size of the resistance.
If the first one or two stumble badly, the others will then start to engage in CYA and will let them fall like hot potatoes.
That is our chance then, and our mission now.
The push to label the resistance as far right took a beating when you saw mums and dads, children and grandparents marching peacefully through London a few weeks back. Eventually the normies must notice. I hope.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, far right about it. Amazingly good atmosphere considering how many different groups were represented as I’ve said before.
5 million next time.
The Normies seem to know nothing and care less. In every country. They live on a completely different planet. You would think they’d notice something but they don’t seem to.
If anyone can propose how we can aid the French in toppling theit tyrants then we must assist, if Macron falls over his vaccine passports plot then much of the rest of the world will be spared these ID cards too. Macron has to fall, and he has to fall in an ugly enough way to terrify any other leaders thinking of copying him.
Haven’t they resorted to violence already?
I wouldn’t hold out too much hope of any kind of revolution in Ireland. As far as I can see, there has been one decent protest against the rollout of vaccine passports for indoor dining. That’s it.
More protests coming in England too.
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There’s one on Monday 19th Parliament Sq.
I bet neither get a fair crack of the whip on the beeb.
The one on the 19th probably won’t be big, it’s a work day. Protests which are not at the weekend always struggle to gain their full size potential.
I’m not on Telegram. Is it worth going to for those concerned about the “vaccine” coercion?
They are always worth going to, if only to spend a few happy hours with normal people.
Find your local sceptic park meetup too, even betetr to see sane people face to face than just over a webchat.
A pleasant idea has occurred to me. A while back, Little fon boasted he was getting his spdouble jibjab so’s he could go to Paris and sneer at us neanderthals back home.
Is he now in Paris, surrounded by paving-stone-throwing refuseniks and with the prospect of red-list quarantine when he returns?
I dooooo hope so.
Or … is fon, the jabbee, gone (for good!)?
I’ve thought about my namesake recently in that context as well. Now who’s laughing?
If he’s had the jabs, he could be dead, let’s keep our fingers crossed for him.
Love it.
The twat has disappeared of late both here and on the Forums. Unless he’s using another “handle.”
Edgy eh?
My impression is this doesn’t look nearly big enough. I have previously expressed doubts as to the impact of the London marches, which look to have been way bigger, despite having been on pretty much every one myself. Not sure what the answer is, just musing.
Let’s hope the French media report it fairly and prominently. Protests here are either ignored or presented as a loony bunch of conspiracy theorists.
Yes. It may be comforting to imagine mass revolt (and I see some hope in – perhaps – more susceptibility to persuasion by facts.
But this is a long way off from a turn-around.
Peaceful protests probably won’t be enough.
Is it just me? But whenever I see ‘poll done by Ipsos’, whether it’s France or the UK or anywhere for that matter, I just see, ‘poll that says whatever the Government wants it to? Regardless of what my eyes are telling Me?
No, it’s not just you.
Macron and Madame Guillotine: a marriage made in heaven!
Unfortunately, tyranny is the opiate of the masses.
Up to now it certainly has been, but the times will have to change or the masses will soon be splattered with their own blood.
One has to appreciate the irony of a “SAGE expert” going on record today with support for quarantining “fully-vaccinated” people returning from France on the grounds that it was probable that “the vaccine” is ineffective against the “beta” (south-african) variant dominant there (something “experts” apparently still don’t know anything about despite all of these months).
Basically, this means SAGE is implying that Macron’s push to get all of France vaccinated is not “because of COVID” as they (claim to) believe “the vaccines” would ineffective against “French COVID”. I’m waiting for Susan Michie to declare that vaccination is really about injecting microchips.
The beta variant is only ‘dominant’ in the French department of Reunion, which is a volcanic island in the Indian Ocean. The Sage expert is a complete nutter, with no idea of geography.
No sage then.
To be very clear, I think there iz zero chance of microchips being in the vacciens at present, but if Michie got the chance I bet she’d find an excuse to include them. As would Macron if the technology would but catch up with his totalitarian wet dreams.
shocking to think that only a few thousand have a problem with this
Indeed. Niall McEvoy nailed it.
For all those who have an intact moral compass and who learned something from history.
As with our lockdowns killing tens of millions in the 3rd world and the woke/left/progressives in particular not giving a sh*t about that at all, it strikes me as being particularly absurd, hypocritical, heinous, demented and psychopathic that they, being identical to the BLM/LGBTQ crowd, don’t give a sh*t about that discrimination of the unvaxxed either.
Special places in hell, is all I can say to that and them.
Very little from Reuters is worth reading in full, and this is no exception. Just 18,000 in Paris… sure there were…
https://mobile.twitter.com/MorganRostagnat/status/1416411317041352704
Its been a decent turnout across France. Estimates vary from 110,000 to 250,000 across the country. The estimate of 18,000 in Paris peddled by Routers is clearly silly, they used the same number earlier this week.
But its the reaction day by day and by the commercial owners that will make a difference.
Until about 2 weeks ago 400,000/day were getting injected, it dropped to 165,000/day now its up to 360,000/day. Will the initial fear continue or will this drop off. The French target for double injected was 70% , it now 80%. The feeling is that 25% will not do it under any circumstances. Unfortunately at 75% they win.
Unfortunately at 75% they win.
As time goes by that 25% will become a majority. The vaxxed are effectively already dead meat.
25% of people utterly uncompliant to a dictator’s regime is enough, there are not enough gendarmes, or for that matter soldiers, to hold back 25% of a population.
Also: what we saw when the tyrant Macron announced his vaccine pass scheme was a small sharp uptake in jab appointments, those people who can be persuaded to take it by tyranny. What hasn’t been remarked on is that the rise in appointments was just that, a spike. The announcement has encouraged all who were willing to take a jab under threat of passports to take it. Everyone still unjabbed at present, and unbooked for an appointment, is someone who intends not to comply at all. Some, might considr a jab if there weren’t the passport scheme, but implementing such tyranny has turned thsoe people against the jab on a point of moral principle, they won’t be considering needles again until after they’ve torn the tyranny to shreds.
It’s interesting to note that opinion polls in France are as made up as they are here in the UK.
I know people want the French march to be big but look at the numbers, maybe 20 or 30 people across the road. Looks like it’s less than 1,000m so that’s tops 30,000 people.
“Thousands have taken to the streets in France”???
Rather more than just “Thousands” from the look of the video.
Why oh why can’t we be honest about the numbers? They never are.
Scared of the other side who will always insist on moving the comma and decimal point over a bit, to suit current narrative.
See for yourself.
https://youtu.be/fZxnmYrSBeE
Yes, video gives a much better idea of the numbers.
more like millions. Are you deliberately trying to downplay the significance and power of these protests, Mr Curzon?
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What do you mean ‘thousands’ protested? It looked more like hundreds of thousands, if not millions. Please, Michael, don’t understate the numbers.
Ipsos polls…? Funded by the Gates Foundation. Lies, lies and more lies.
Yes where is Paris a small town in Costa Rica perhaps i only ask because i read about a riot there the other day with pictures of burning cars and rioting yoths but when i looked on the BBC website for more informatio it didnt mention it at all
RISE UP OR PUT UP that simple im afraid
The health crisis only exists in these political fools’ minds. They have been scared out of their puny little minds (or at least act that way) by a coterie of health managers in cahoots with Big Pharma, so they now treat a virus with an IFR similar to that of influenza as a major health catastrophe requiring …..wait for it….a massive increase in their powers over the lives of their population (of whom they have been afraid ever since the 2016 populist upheavals and the yellow-vest insurrectionists). A total win-win for the ruling class…satisfy your narcissist side (Macron…BoJo) by acting as the Messias and at the same time gain vast new powers that will consolidate your power (or that of your ruling class) over the people for a long time. The end result is already foreseeable….internment camps for the non-vaccinated and their kids until they capitulate.