Many of the demonstrators did not wear masks, and they were dissatisfied with the vaccination regulations for health workers and health passes to enter public places.

The Paris police fired tear gas and arrested them while trying to disperse the demonstrators. Many of them are skeptical of vaccines, the so-called “anti-vaccine”“They marched all over France because of the new coronavirus restrictions.

Some protests started as early as Wednesday morning in Paris, when the annual military parade of the traditional Bastille Day parade watched by President Emmanuel Macron was being held on the Champs Elysées.

The protest continued until Wednesday night. The protesters were filmed in video clips posted on social media, and they also set off fireworks at the police.

Many of the demonstrators did not wear masks, and they were dissatisfied with the decision announced on Monday to force health workers to vaccinate and require people to show vaccine health passes to enter most public places. Those who have not been vaccinated need to show a negative test result.

The announcement prompted a record number of French people to book COVID-19 jabs.

“This is in the name of freedom” is a message from some protesters.

In an area of ??the French capital, the police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.

The county police said in a tweet that the announced route had not been followed and regretted that the protesters “threw projectiles” and set fires.

Throughout Paris, about 2,250 people protested, and other demonstrations took place in Toulouse, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Nantes and other places. The French authorities set the total number of protesters at 19,000.

‘Healthy isolation’

The Ministry of the Interior stated that there were 53 different protests across France.

“Down with the dictatorship” and “Down with the Health Pass” protesters chanted.

One of them, Yann Fontaine, a 29-year-old notary from the Béry region in central France, said that he came to Paris to demonstrate and believed that the health pass was equivalent to “isolation.”

“Macron is playing with fear, which is disgusting. I know that vaccinations are now only to take children to the movies, not to protect others from severe forms of COVID infection,” he said.

The police shut down the anti-Emanuel Macron protests in Paris. The demonstrators were angry at the President’s announcement of COVID “passports” for entering restaurants, shopping malls, bars and other businesses. pic.twitter.com/gTFPzc5eSv

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“There is no vaccine obligation, this is the biggest inducement,” government spokesman Gabriel Atal said at the time.

“It’s hard for me to understand that in a country where 11 vaccines are already mandatory… this may be considered a dictatorship,” he said, adding that after a year of vaccine research, “the time for suspicion has long passed.”

For teenagers who have only been able to accept jabs since mid-June, the rules will be relaxed-“It is impossible to make summer hell,” Attar said.

According to the Elabe poll released on Tuesday, the vast majority of French people approve of the new security measures.

So far, approximately 35.5 million people—just over half of the French population—have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

At the beginning of the pandemic, France had the highest level of suspicion of vaccines among developed countries.

In December 2020, A survey conducted by the Odoxa polling team and Le Figaro, Indicating that only 42% of the French population wants to be vaccinated. By April this year, this proportion had risen to 70%, and about 14% of people still strongly opposed the vaccine.