PARIS  - More than 100,000 people protested Saturday across France against the government's latest measures to push people to get vaccinated and curb

Thousands Protest Against Vaccination, COVID Passes in France

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2021-07-18 23:30:06

PARIS - More than 100,000 people protested Saturday across France against the government's latest measures to push people to get vaccinated and curb rising infections by the delta variant of the coronavirus.

In Paris, separate protest marches by the far right and the far left wound through different parts of the city. Demonstrations were also held in Strasbourg in the east, Lille in the north, Montpellier in the south and elsewhere.

Thousands of people answered calls to take to the streets by Florian Philippot, a fringe far-right politician and former right hand of Marine Le Pen who announced earlier this month that he would run in the 2022 presidential election. Gathered a stone's throw from the Louvre Museum, protesters chanted "Macron, clear off!" and "Freedom," and they banged metal spoons on saucepans.

While Philippot has organized small but regular protests against the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis, Saturday's demonstration drew a larger and more diverse crowd of people broadly disaffected with politics: yellow vest activists angry over perceived economic injustice, far-right supporters, medical staff and royalists.

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