(VARIOUS MEDIA SOURCES INCLUDING FRANCE 24 AND BFM-TV INCLUDED IN THIS POST)
Politics in France this week President Macron's Monday night speech one where he proposed six new nuclear power plants as a means of putting France into compliance with its "climate" goals of reducing carbon emissions.
Macron also putting on hold the notion of "pension reform" in France while the COVID situation is still impacting France. The "reform" expected to cut pension benefits for millions of French citizens was a contentious issue that drove the early days of Yellow Vests protests in the country.
The political opposition in France including Mr. Macron's leading opponent in next April's presidential election Marine Le Pen saw the speech as a campaign event.
YELLOW VESTS GATHER TO PROTEST IN PARIS SATURDAY NOVEMBER 13, 2021
This procession today in the city of Aix en Provence just north of Marseille. Hundreds of opponents of of coerced vaccination making their point with French flags, banners, signs and even bells...
This long video shows a rally in Versailles today with the speaking starting at 10 minutes in the video. Later at around 40 minutes into the video a march begins...VERSAILLES PROTEST OPPOSING FORCED VACCINATION, VACCINE PASSPORT 11/13/2021
Video of the procession in Paris that began at 3 pm this afternoon as thousands moved through the streets some in Yellow Vests and some not....PARIS PROTEST PROCESSION SATURDAY 11/13/2021 WEEK 157 YELLOW VESTS
This week Health Minister Olivier Veran appeared on the TF 1 news program at 8 pm the traditional venue for important government pronouncements alerting France to the notion that a "Fifth Wave" of COVID-19 is emerging in France.
In France daily positive test totals hit the range of 11 to 13 thousand per day this week, a sharp uptick but not as sharp as in neighboring countries like Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands where new restrictive measures are now in force or being considered.
The number for today Saturday in France 14,646.
Like the other European countries where positive tests have spiked there are high percentages of "fully vaccinated" people in the 75 percent or higher range in France among the population considered able to be given COVID shots.
Today in northern France individuals 12 years and older entering from Belgium are required to be "fully vaccinated" or to have had a negative COVID test within the last 24 hours.
A rainy day but a vibrant protest in eastern France near the German border in the city of Strasbourg...
At Angouleme in southwestern France a rally with speakers in opposition to the vaccine passport and vaccine mandates...
Another Saturday of health freedom protesters moving through the streets of Marseille..
This is the 18th consecutive Saturday that opposition to the vaccine passport and coerced vaccination has been in the forefront of Yellow Vests protests.
In the southern French city of Montpellier thousands again in the streets....
The gathering of Yellow Vests in Besancon in the Alpine region of France near the Swiss border today. A procession in the streets with drums with hundreds at least visible.
The chant of the crowd:
"Vaccine No"
Protesters take the demonstration right into a cinema at 36 minutes and 30 seconds into the video as they enter the movie theater. Cinemas are among the places where the vaccine passport is required for those 12 years and older....
The protest in Toulon in southern France with motorcycles leading the way again today...
And a video from Lille in northern France with some still pictures mixed in a 14 minute montage of today's Week 157 Yellow Vests protest.
Four protests messages duct taped together at 1:45 into this video they are translated:
Stop Experimental Injections
And Do Not Touch The Children
#All Anti-Pass
Freedom...VIDEO LINK
And to sum up thousands involved in the Week 157 Yellow Vests protests nationwide across France with a heavy emphasis on Health Freedom opposition to the vaccine passport and coercion to vaccinate...
That's the story of the Yellow Vests for this week in France.
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