Leaving in convoys from the four corners of France, thousands of opponents of the vaccine pass or the government converged on Paris on Friday despite the ban decreed by the police headquarters and the firmness displayed by the authorities.
From daybreak, processions of several dozen private cars, motorhomes and vans formed in Lille, Strasbourg or Vimy (Pas-de-Calais). In the west, 280 vehicles according to the gendarmerie, more than 400 according to AFP, left in the morning from Châteaubourg (Ille-et-Vilaine).
A total of some 2,600 vehicles, according to a police source, were on their way to the capital in the early followingnoon. One of the coordinators of the event spoke to AFP of an action “of phenomenal scale”, without however quantifying it.
A heterogeneous gathering of opponents of President Emmanuel Macron and “yellow vests” who protested once morest his government in 2018-2019, this movement was formed thanks to social networks and encrypted messaging on the model of the mobilization which paralyzes the capital. Canadian Ottawa.
