(INFORMATION FROM BFM-TV, FRANCE 24, RUSSIA TODAY OTHER MEDIA CONTRIBUTING TO THIS POST)
YELLOW VESTS HEALTH FREEDOM PROTEST PARIS 8/7/2021
"Very disappointing decision of the Constitutional Council. It does not protect any of the freedoms threatened by the Health Pass"
Left-Wing French Political Leader Jean-Luc Melenchon Reacts To Constitutional Council Ruling On Coronavirus Restrictions In France 8/5/2021
"Very quick to censor any firm measure against legal and illegal immigration, the Constitutional Council finds no fault with a law which hinders the freedom of movement of the French, in their own country, on the basis of vaccination. Hypocrisy total!"
National Rally Leader Marine Le Pen Reacts To Constitutional Council Ruling On Coronavirus Restrictions In France 8/5/2021
Both the "Left" and the "Right" taking jabs at the jabs being ordered for some and enforced for all in France.
The protest movement continues in France infused with new power and strength related to the opposition to forced vaccination of health care workers and the introduction of the vaccine passport to enter large stores, restaurants and museums among other places.
France's Constitutional Council of judges confirming the key parts of the government's coronavirus measures Thursday. The vaccine passport law goes into effect Monday.
"THE YELLOW NUMBER" FACEBOOK ESTIMATES 415,061 PROTESTERS ON THE STREETS OF FRANCE IN SATURDAY'S PROTESTS....
THE OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT ESTIMATE IS 237 THOUSAND PROTESTERS INCLUDING 17 THOUSAND IN PARIS,
Four protests going on today in Paris alone, Yellow Vests songs and the cry of:
"Liberte"
The first Paris protest underway at 1130 am this morning and this 90 minute video shows the beginning and development of the protest....
PARIS YELLOW VESTS HEALTH FREEDOM PROTEST SATURDAY 8/7/2021 WEEK 143
The French Indian Ocean territory of Reunion the site of a protest by some two thousand people today according to government media there...
Protests against the vaccine passport (health pass) include some restaurant and bar owners. They've closed their businesses today. The government expects them to check all their customers for vaccine passports and they object.
One owner Morgan Sedrue saying:
"It's not our job"
although he plans no resistance to the new rule when it comes into force Monday.
Its now afternoon in Paris the last of the four protests underway in the city and here is a video stream...
FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 143 HEALTH FREEDOM PROTEST PARIS VIDEO STREAM 8/7/2021
There was rain in Paris today as the protests began but thousands still came out at the four sites with a hail storm late in the day leading many to leave but a determined crowd still remained by early evening...
At Clermont-Ferrand today a gathering of 3900 people in protest according to local media....
Montpellier in southern France a major center of protest in recent weeks with the ranks of Yellow Vests infused with opposition to the vaccine passport and forced vaccination...
A massive crowd on the Riviera in Nice today some 15 to 20 thousand protesters according to BFM-TV. Police and firefighters joining the protest. This protest much larger than the seven thousand estimated by authorities last week...
Another large crowd of Health Freedom-Yellow Vests protesters on the streets in Tours today...TOURS FRANCE PROTEST WEEK 143 YELLOW VESTS 8/7/2021
The official police estimate 2450 protesters in Lyon today...
In Brittany Rennes was the site of another huge protest with a crowd surging into a main square....RENNES FRANCE HEALTH FREEDOM YELLOW VESTS PROTEST WEEK 143 8/7/2021
The anarchist "black blocs", a regular feature of the Yellow Vests protests of the last several years, visible in Toulouse today offering up their activities which involve a fight with police and tear gas from the police.
Their activities seem to add up to a false flag discrediting of peaceful non-violent protests and providing of assistance to the government's agenda....BLACK BLOCS ANARCHISTS SHOW UP AT TOULOUSE PROTEST 8/7/2021
Back to Paris and a view from above of the protesters in the streets described as 'the images you will never see on television'...PARIS PROTEST AUGUST 7, 2021: THE IMAGES YOU WILL NEVER SEE ON TELEVISION
"We are afraid"
Part of the message of health care workers some 200 joining the protest against mandatory vaccination of health care workers outside the Marseille France hospital they work in just two days ago.....
Today in Marseille the crowd marching in the streets described as "Incredible"....
Another view of a much larger peaceful non-violent group protesting today in Toulouse as opposed to the small group of anarchists noted earlier...
"Social Breakage"
is a theme in today's protests here is the scene in northern France today in Lille....LILLE FRANCE PROTEST WEEK 143 YELLOW VESTS 8/7/2021
This is a full three hour video showing the Health Freedom-Yellow Vests protest in Bordeaux today from start to finish....FULL VIDEO BORDEAUX PROTEST WEEK 143 YELLOW VESTS 8/7/2021
By this evening the government counting protests in over 150 cities and towns across the country also reporting 35 arrests and seven minor injuries to police.
The official government estimates point to large crowds in Southeastern France and 11-thousand in Paris at the political rally of Florian Philippot, former associate of Marine Le Pen. who leads a political party called "The Patriots".
Marine Le Pen posted a video on You Tube today presenting her view of the situation saying that the vaccine passport (health pass) is an attack on the liberty and equality of the citizens of France....MARINE LE PEN ON VACCINE PASSPORTS-HEALTH PASSES (IN FRENCH)
Gaullist political leader Nicolas Dupont-Aignan told RT France today that France can fight the epidemic while respecting its founding principles expressing his opposition to forced vaccination and vaccine passports...
An additional source of protest videos and news is the "Yellow Vests Hendaye" Facebook page from southwestern France....GILETS JAUNES HENDAYIS (HENDAYE) FACEBOOK
THE YELLOW NUMBER FACEBOOK MAY OFFER US ITS CROWD ESTIMATE FOR THE PROTESTS TOMORROW AND THAT WILL BE ADDED TO THIS POST...
The protest movement in France is now enlarged from Yellow Vests to include activists of the Left and Right concerned about the direction of France away from its traditional liberties.
The anti-vaccination activists alone could not bring out the crowds that are this large crowds that offer political potential to hurt President Emmanuel Macron's re-election plans for next year.
For now that is the story of the Yellow Vests in France for this week.
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