According to local media reports, this Saturday in many cities of France, new demonstrations were organized against the vaccine pass.

Several thousand protesters marched in Paris, Marseille, Strasbourg and other cities, two days before the controversial vaccine pass was a key measure of the government’s strategy against the COVID-19 pandemic.

In Paris, 4,000 to 5,000 protesters marched on Saturday afternoon in one of four demonstrations authorized by the province.

Departing from the Place de Barcelona at the capital’s 16th convention, protesters then headed towards the Ministry of Health, displaying posters and shouting slogans denouncing “a libertarian-killing measure”.

Just over 1,000 people held another demonstration in Marseille, according to local media, citing the Bouches-du-Rhne police headquarters. A similar number of protesters marched in Strasbourg.

The day of mobilization comes two days before the implementation of the new vaccination pass, which received constitutional council approval on Friday, was seized earlier in the week by opposition lawmakers who have criticized a tool that curtails fundamental freedoms. and which had not proved its effectiveness. In preventing the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Constitutional Council, which validated most of the vaccination bill, said in a public statement that “vaccination will be abolished as soon as the measure is no longer necessary”. He also condemned another provision of the law, which requires political parties to have a sanitary pass at the entrance of meetings.

On Thursday, by unveiling the timetable for the “gradual lifting” of restrictive measures put in place to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced that the “vaccination passes” based on hospital pressure The system can be removed. ,

MS (with MAP)