(INFORMATION FROM BFM-TV , FRANCE 24, OTHER SOURCES IN POST, THIS POST UPDATED AND EXPANDED INTO SATURDAY EVENING EASTERN US TIME)
Health Freedom, Yellow Vests Protesters March Near The Eiffel Tower In Paris 9/4/2021
Some neighborhoods in Marseille got a cleanup this week as President Emmanuel Macron traveled to the southern French city to offer his vision of the future.
Macron talking jobs and crime which has emerged as a major issue in France and investment of billions of US dollars into Marseille.
Its just seven months to the first round of voting in France's Presidential Election on April 10th.
Macron seeking re-election with his key opponent National Rally leader Marine Le Pen who is projected in polling to be his opponent in the decisive second round vote on April 24th.
But what Macron isn't talking about the continuing protests over vaccine passports in the country.
His political handlers spinning to the media their sense that the protests are "marginalized" and the media echoing the theme...POLITICO EU
More than 200 protests planned across France today last week 160,000 protested according to the government while "The Yellow Number" Facebook counted 323,294 as their minimum estimate of protesters. Both numbers lower than the week before.
The Ministry of the Interior projecting 130 to 170 thousand protesters today...
Five protests in Paris today here is a look at the one of them as it formed up including interviews with protesters...
PARIS YELLOW VESTS HEALTH FREEDOM PROTEST WEEK 147 9/4/2021
Here is a second stream of video from a protest in Paris....
PARIS YELLOW VESTS WEEK 147 VIDEO STREAM 2
The protest in Lille today in northern France....
WEEK 147 HEALTH FREEDOM YELLOW VESTS PROTEST LILLE 9/4/2021
Other protests at various locations across France including Albertville in the mountainous southeast of France near the Italian border...VIDEO LINK ALBERTVILLE PROTEST ...and Versailles near Paris.
Thousands on the streets in Marseille today the city where President Emmanuel Macron spent two days on his campaign style tour this week.
Protesters in the thousands again shouting:
"Liberte"...
MARSEILLE HEALTH FREEDOM YELLOW VESTS PROTEST WEEK 147 9/4/2021
A huge crowd again in the southern French city of Montpellier today the government estimate 7,000 people...
A protest in eastern France in Strasbourg today. 2200 demonstrators estimated here by the government...STRASBOURG HEALTH FREEDOM PROTEST YELLOW VESTS WEEK 147 9/4/2021
And on the streets of Toulon in southern France a local newspaper protested over its lack of objective reporting about COVID and vaccine passports. The government estimate 2200 protesters in the streets of Toulon today..
And this protest in the small city of Montbeliard located in high terrain of eastern France near the Swiss border....
Mainstream media focus on an incident where hundreds of people entered a shopping center in Paris the kind of location subject to vaccine passport regulations in France. This happened at the end of a demonstration that was out on the streets of the city.
A spectacle created at this shopping center.
It involved a group of riot police surrounded by media making videos and group of people pursuing them some with clenched fists in the air.
Perhaps a "January 6th" Drama for public consumption....INCIDENT AT PARIS SHOPPING CENTER 9/4/2021
Large crowds of peaceful protesters all over France today like this one in Colmar in eastern France near the German border.
The protest described as one against the vaccine passport and forced vaccination...
The crowd estimates for today only one official government estimate out tonight 141,655 protesters estimated today with 14,500 of them in Paris.
"The Yellow Number" Facebook declining to offer a count this weekend. None will be released from the side of the protesters.
In a number of cities today demonstrations were banned in certain locations by the authorities.
3700 protesters in Lyon today said to be divided into two demonstrations. Here is video of a large crowd moving through the streets.
In Bordeaux today 2900 protesting according to the authorities the crowd shouting "No No, No" to the vaccine passport.
Motorcyclists among the protesters. There are also confrontational scenes with police seen in this video and a trash can set on fire. The disruptive anarchist elements appear to have inserted themselves into the peaceful protest...BORDEAUX-HEALTH FREEDOM YELLOW VESTS PROTEST WEEK 147 9/4/2021
For now that is the story of the Yellow Vests and Health Freedom protests in France.
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