FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 145: STAGED ANTI-SEMITIC INCIDENTS THEN AND NOW ANOTHER DAY OF MASS PROTEST SUPPORT FOR THREATENED FRENCH SCIENTIST 357 THOUSAND PROTESTERS ESTIMATED

 

(THIS POST UPDATED AND COMPLETED SUNDAY MORNING 8/22 EASTERN US TIME)

YELLOW VESTS GATHERING IN PARIS AUGUST 21, 2021

The appearance of "Anti-Semitic Signs" reported by the media during the end of the protests in Paris last Saturday for whatever reason reminds us that the effort to discredit opponents of coronavirus restrictions has a consistent pattern.

Last December in the United States as protesters in opposition to a mask order in the Boise, Idaho area were gathering in ever increasing numbers an incident just happened to happen.

Swastikas appeared at a memorial to Holocaust victim Anne Frank in a city park.

This led to a quick denunciation of "hate" by the Republican Party political officials at the highest levels of Idaho government and by implication a smearing of the American flag bearing and Trump flag bearing opponents of the mask order and other coronavirus restrictions.

Nazi symbolism in the form of vandalism was a problem in France early in 1960 with many incidents some deliberate others copycat.

In his book on the Soviet intelligence agency ("KGB") author John Barron points to the Soviet motive for staging those incidents.   It was to drive a wedge between the emerging alliance between France and Germany exemplified in NATO and the Common Market.

And so today these same incidents could be explained by the hope in those perpetrating them to drive a wedge in the ranks of vaccine passport forced vaccination opponents in France.

More than 200 protests events scheduled  for today across France.   The pre-estimate from the police is for 170,000 to 220,000 thousand participants with 12,000 in Paris.

This protest today in Pau in southwestern France.....PAU YELLOW VESTS HEALTH FREEDOM PROTEST WEEK 145 8/21/2021...At least 2700 protesters estimated in Pau.

This Health Freedom Protest opposing the vaccination passport in France is at La Rochelle on the Atlantic Coast....

Official government crowd estimates from all over France today including 6,000 in Toulon and 800 in Frejus.

The estimate for Montpellier in the south of France today 9,500.    Montpellier was a center of protest in the early days of the Yellow Vests and in the new version of protest focused on vaccine passports and forced vaccination it again is a center of protest....

This video from Montpellier posted on You Tube pointing to the notion of 40000 protesting in the city today...

A large crowd in Montpellier seen in this video.....

INCIDENT IN MONTPELLIER:   FIGHTING REPORTED WITH HOODED PEOPLE?

Montpellier the scene of hooded people mixing in the crowd and beating up demonstrators.    It was called a fight between the far-left and far-right in mainstream media reporting.

Injuries reported in the fighting.

A description of the incident the expulsion of a "far-right group" from the protests by the "Anti-Fascist Front"....VIDEO LA MULE MONTPELLER PROTEST INCIDENT 8/21/2021

Video of the protest in Bordeaux today at the "Place de la Bourse".   The crowd officially estimated at 3,400...

Back in Paris this one hour and 55 minute video captures  the full scope of the protest there from its assembly to the procession in the streets.

Many signs in the protest including one alluding to the France of compulsory vaccination for some and vaccine passports for all as:

                         "Kontrolistan"

And France's President Emmanuel Macron as:

                         "Macronescu"

an allusion to the former Romanian ruler Nicolae Ceausescu.

The full translation of the sign that you can see just after two minutes into the video is:

"Welcome to Kontrolistan, Glory to our Guide Macronescu"....

FULL ONE HOUR 55 MINUTES HEALTH FREEDOM YELLOW VESTS PROTEST PARIS 8/21/2021

The official government estimate of protesters in Marseille today is 4,000.   The throng of protesters moved through the streets and the masks not very visible at all in the crowd definitely Health Freedom protesters here.    A fire vehicle went through the crowd as you see in the this video?...

BFM-TV says that Marseille and Paris protesters were supporting scientist Didier Raoult who supported hydroxychloroquine as a COVID treatment and is being pushed out of his medical positions in Marseille.   Raoult also threatened with removal as director of the infectious disease institute he founded in Marseille.

This was the scene outside the institute today as protesters gathered....

Tonight the official government estimate of the protests 175,503 participants.   In Paris the Interior Ministry estimate 14,700.

"The Yellow Number" Facebook reporting an estimate of 357,100 participants.

The Ministry of the Interior also found a very peaceful protest pattern for today only 20 arrests nationwide and one member of the police forces hurt.

The government is being forced to deny it has any intention to extend vaccination to children under the age of 12.

According to BFM-TV this denial though is not from the health authorities but from the Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer.

Mr. Blanquer also unveiling a protocol for the return to school in France this weekend that makes masks mandatory.   Vaccination campaigns will be underway for students over age 12 and there will an isolation policy.

Unvaccinated students "at risk" will isolate in the case of a positive test in a middle or high school classroom.    In primary schools one positive test will close the classroom for seven days.

The Vaccine Passport will apply when students visit places like museums where they are required to be vaccinated or test negative if unvaccinated.

Mainstream media reporting persisting in its attempts to paint the protests as having racist and Anti-Semitic overtones.

For now that is the story of the Yellow Vests protests Week 145.

         

(INFORMATON FROM AFP, FRANCE 24 AND BFM-TV CONTRIBUTED TO THIS POST)