5.15 p.m. The demonstration is now over. Thank you for having followed us.
17h10. The speeches take place in peace. Police announce 3,000 people in the end of the demonstration, while the organizers counted 11,500.
16h40. The procession arrives at Place de la République. The demonstration is coming to an end. It went off without incident. It remains to be seen how the delicate phase of the dispersion will go.
16h36. The procession came to a stop in Chaplerue. Manon is the only nurse in her department not to be vaccinated: “We must consider the risk-benefit ratio. I encouraged my elderly parents to be vaccinated. I don’t risk much,” she believes. . She resists “daily pressures from doctors, colleagues and even patients.” She remains “determined to go through with it.”
16h10. The battle for numbers has begun. “We are 11,500, the procession extends over 1.8 kmone of the organizers shouted at the microphone.
16h. Graziella, 64 years old pensioner is “ready to take up arms” rather than being vaccinated. “We are there especially for children. These vaccines are trials, we can not trust,” said Régis, who came from Thionville with Nora his wife and Leo their 9-year-old son. Like this one, many families are present in the procession.
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15h40. The demonstrators with cries of “Macron your pass we do not want” arrive at Place Saint-Jacques and approach the pedestrian plateau. “Citizens, we are in the street for you” launches one of the leaders of the procession.
3.30 p.m. While the procession continues to follow the route declared in the prefecture, several demonstrators remained on the Place de la République.
3:10 p.m. The demonstrators are rue Haute-Seille. No major incidents to report at this stage, despite some aggressive behavior.
3 p.m. The demonstration heads towards the Place Saint-Louis. Marie caregiver, is at the head of the procession. She is summoned Wednesday by her employer in Moselle-Est for an interview before dismissal for refusing to be vaccinated.
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14h50. Impossible to give an estimate of the number of demonstrations at this hour. But the parade is important. “We are more numerous than last Saturday, the mobilization increases” assures a militant of the Patriots.
2:30 p.m. Departure of the event. The procession takes the direction of the rue du Coëtlosquet.
14h25. “Macron your pass, we don’t want it!” is chanted, dominated however by the word “freedom”, obviously the most mobilizing. “No fascists in the demonstration!”, Launches Rouane who is “of all the demonstrations for three years.”
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2:18 p.m. At the microphone, a man immediately shatters the citizen tone: “The ultra rich are preparing a constitutional coup with the complicity of all the media (…) for a genocidal policy”.
14h10. The circuit is the classic one in the city center. “It is a citizen gathering, not a political one. The watchword is the health pass which is an attack on our freedom”, specifies Christian Guillemenet, one of the organizers. He speaks in front of an already large crowd.
14h. The demonstrators gather on the outskirts of the Place de la République, partially occupied by the funfair of the Mirabelle festivities. A small truck plays a soundtrack. The tone of the texts and the theme of the images and slogans displayed are clearly anti-Macron
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The route of the event, identical to that of last week.
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