Between 5,000 to 6,000 people, according to the organizers, marched against the health pass and the compulsory vaccination of caregivers and service personnel. That is to say a level slightly higher than that of last week.
If the mobilizations have not dried up all summer, it will be a question of seeing whether the popular dynamic will remain of the same ilk while the start of the school year promises to be rich in social and political challenges to come, perhaps favoring a convergence of more traditional, but fundamental social struggles, such as the reduction of unemployment benefits, and the reform of pensions …
As our collaborator Jean-Jacques Greiner was able to capture below, the movement seems to be taking root, and multiple actions are scheduled, including a national meeting, scheduled in Paris by September 4.
Less discreet but perhaps more organized than on previous occasions, we clearly noticed a banner with fleur-de-lys, a mark of theFrench Action, nationalist political movement, far-right royalist and counter-revolutionary, propagating and supporting state anti-Semitism until the end of the Second World War.
The inscription “freedoms are not granted, they are taken“, Is a cynical distortion of a sentence of Pierre Kropotkine, theorist of libertarian communism. Which would have moderately appreciated that freedom is instrumentalised by its worst enemies.
The presence of this small group revealing some sad passions still relevant on the occasion of this movement, will not however have tarnished the popular, good-natured and very diverse character of its ensemble.
Some chasubles from certain sectors of the CGT were also visible in the procession.
In Alsace, there were also more than 3,000 demonstrators in Colmar, and more than 4,000 in Strasbourg, a downward trend for the regional capital, compared to last week.
As for the extension of the health pass, already compulsory in bars, restaurants and hospitals, it is continuing in France, simultaneously with the incidence rate. Since Monday, more than 120 large shopping centers and stores in Paris and almost half in the south of France now have the obligation to systematically control the document, causing here and there tensions and misunderstandings on the part of some customers.
In the Mulhouse region, all hypermarkets and shopping centers of more than 20,000 square meters have also been subject to it since this week …
Below find the photographic gallery proposed by our friend and collaborator Martin Wilhelm:
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