For eight weeks in a row, France has seen protests by hundreds of thousands of people. Just last weekend, 140,000 people took to the streets again to demonstrate against the "health passport", according to the Ministry of the Interior. Paris, Marseille, Toulouse and Nice are just the biggest cities mentioned.
At the last demonstration, hundreds of people marched in protest through shopping centres, which according to the new law can only be entered with a health pass. In Paris, the police ended this procession violently and arrested three demonstrators; nationwide there were a total of 21 arrests. There are repeated fights with the police and numerous arrests during the protests. In particular, the continuing tightening of the new regulations is bringing many people out onto the streets. Now that employees who are in contact with the public at work are also subject to the new regulations, they will also apply to children and youths from 30 September: From then on, 12- to 17-year-olds will also have to show a health passport in order to be allowed to take part in school trips, for example.
Meanwhile, the bourgeois government around President Macron is trying, with the help of the bourgeois media, to portray the demonstrators as right-wing extremists and opponents of vaccination, as some demonstrations are registered by right-wing parties. However, many videos and other reports show that it is mainly people who are angry that their fundamental rights are being restricted and who are speaking out against Macron's government who are taking to the streets.
