French police fire tear gas as thousands protest against Covid vaccine rules

It follows a decision to oblige health workers to get vaccinated and bring in a vaccine health pass for most public places.

A protester holds a placard during the demonstration against the health pass in Marseille. Image: SIPA USA/PA Images A protester holds a placard during the demonstration against the health pass in Marseille. Image: SIPA USA/PA Images POLICE IN PARIS fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators last night, as 19,000 people protested throughout France over new coronavirus restrictions.

The declared protest route was not respected, the prefecture of police said in a tweet, deploring the “throwing of projectiles” and lighting of fires by the demonstrators. “Macron plays on fears, it’s revolting. I know people who will now get vaccinated just so that they can take their children to the movies, not to protect others from serious forms of Covid,” he said.

“I have a hard time understanding, in a country where 11 vaccines are already mandatory… that this could be seen as a dictatorship,” he said, adding that after a year of studying the vaccines “the time of doubting is long past”. Around 35.5 million people – just over half of France’s population – have received at least one vaccine dose so far.

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