SPECIAL UPDATE ON SUNDAY 8/1 1155 PM EASTERN US TIME-THE 'YELLOW NUMBER' FACEBOOK PAGE IN FRANCE ESTIMATED 373,540 PROTESTERS AT 192 LOCATIONS IN FRANCE ON SATURDAY
WEEK 142 YELLOW VESTS PARIS PROTEST VIDEO STREAM 7/31/2021
(MATERIAL FROM FRANCE 24 AND BFM-TV CONTRIBUTED TO THIS POST)
HEALTH FREEDOM PROTESTERS OPPOSING VACCINE PASSPORT IN TOULOUSE FRANCE TODAY JULY 31, 2021
MORE PROTESTERS THAN EVER ON THE STREETS TODAY IN FRANCE PROTESTING FOR HEALTH FREEDOM, SOME OF THE LARGEST CROWDS IN MANY MONTHS IN THE TWO YEARS AND 10 TEN MONTHS LONG SATURDAY YELLOW VESTS PROTESTS. DETAILS LATER IN THE POST....
Former National Front (Now National Rally) deputy leader Florian Philippot drew attention to himself with a speech to some 11-thousand people in Paris last Saturday at a rally opposing vaccine passports in the country.
The National Rally leader Marine Le Pen, who is the leading opposition candidate in next year's presidential election, has denounced President Emmanuel Macron's vaccine passport ("Health Pass") policy as a
"backward step for personal freedoms"
This week Le Pen denounced protocols developed by the Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer that involve removal of unvaccinated students from classrooms and school activities. She posted on Twitter:
"The quiet violence of Mr. Blanquer's announcements, which contemplates the exclusion of unvaccinated minor students from school trips among other things, is just revolting. How can we even think of doing that?"
A new health pass law effect a week from Monday (August 9th).
Today more protests in France with Yellow Vests ranks swelled by Health Freedom advocates.
The government actually coming up with an intelligence estimate of 140-thousand protesters for today....
Perhaps the government and media playing up numbers ahead of time will help to reduce the impact of the large crowds protesting today from their point of view.
Police sealed off the Champs-Elysees in Paris where protests have been banned since the early days of the Yellow Vests following incidents of vandalism.
In Lyon protesters supporting hospital workers who are on strike over forced vaccination for COVID-19. This video report from BFM-TV....BFM-TV VIDEO REPORT LILLE 7/31/2021
Massive protests in some southern French cities including an officially estimated crowd of 10,000 in Montpellier and another one in Nice of 6,500. Here is video from Montpellier...
A crowd of three thousand in Avignon and 2,200 in Aix-en-Provence.
Incidents involving attacks on the media in Marseille today and tear gas used in Paris by police against the usual anarchist elements that show up at peaceful protests and give them a bad image for the cameras.
This video from Marseille shows individuals doing those kind of things lighting smoke torches and throwing chairs...MARSEILLE PROTEST 7/31/2021 WITH PROVOCATEURS DISRUPTING...The police estimate 4,800 protesting in Marseille today.
Here is a nine minute video bringing the predominate atmosphere of the protest a peaceful one advocating for:
"Freedom"
VIDEO REPORT PARIS YELLOW VESTS WEEK 142 7/31/2021
Also some live video available as protests are expected to go on into the early evening in Paris...
From the South of France at La Ciotat on the Mediterranean coast hundreds demonstrating for "Liberte (Freedom)" 450 according to police 700 according to organizers....
Two thousand demonstrated in the French Indian Ocean territory of Reunion today.
And in north of France at Maubeuge near the Belgian border this demonstration in the streets...YELLOW VESTS HEALTH FREEDOM PROTEST MAUBEUGE, FRANCE 7/31/2021
The official government estimate Saturday evening 204,090 protesters across France with 14,250 in Paris.
At Rennes in northwestern France some 2,900 protested today according to government estimate, almost four thousand protesting in Nantes.
The number of protesters in Toulon in southern France some 13,000....
3,200 protested in Strasbourg in eastern France....VIDEO LINK 5,500 demonstrators estimated by police in Bordeaux.
Government officials say 19 arrests were made today and the three police officers were hurt in the "incidents" that were isolated compared to the overall tenor of the protests nationwide. Members of the media attacked in a few instances and BFM-TV was reporting an attack on a pharmacist in Montpellier.
The origins of the "incidents" some of them involved anarchists who usually show up and engage in confrontations with police and others not known now. How and why they show up how and why these "incidents" happen worth investigation and questions being asked? Do they originate in government efforts to discredit peaceful protesters opposing COVID policies like the vaccine passport?
Tonight the mainstream media in France describing threats aimed a politicians, operators of restaurants and doctors over the vaccine passport. The notion of a divided society that may slide into violence is presented.
Also a link to the "Yellow Vests Hendaye" Facebook page including a video from southwestern France at a protest today.....YELLOW VESTS HENDAYE (GILETS JAUNES HENDAYIS) FACEBOOK
That's the story of the Yellow Vests and the Health Freedom protests opposing the vaccine passport in France for this week.
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