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Anti-Vaccine Passport Protesters Storm French Town Hall, Pull Down Macron Portrait
Quote:Around 300 anti-vaccine passport protesters stormed the town hall of Chambéry, denouncing French measures to implement a vaccine passport.
The group had gathered in front of the courthouse at around 2 p.m. on Wednesday before heading for the town hall.
After noticing that the door to the town hall had been left open, the protesters entered, yelling various slogans, including, “No to the [vaccine] pass,” and “Macron must resign!” French broadcaster France Info reports.
The protesters then took down the official portrait of President Emmanuel Macron, a symbolic gesture that was also seen in late 2019 when climate activists stole the presidential portraits from some 130 town halls across France.
“The city of Chambéry condemns with the utmost firmness this intrusion,” the mayor’s office said in a statement, and added that it was not “tolerable to attack republican symbols and the symbolic place that is a city hall”.
According to France Info, the demonstrators only remained in the town hall for 10 to 15 minutes before departing. They then continued their demonstration in other parts of the town before attempting to march to a nearby expressway road, but were blocked by local gendarmes. It was the third protest against vaccine passports in the city in a week.
The protest comes just days after an alleged arson attack on a vaccination centre in the municipality of Urrugne in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques county.
Philippe Aramendi, the mayor of Urrugne, said: “It may be too early to know if we are dealing with anti-vaxxers, but if they are, it is saddening.”
Last weekend, over 100,000 people took to the streets to protest France’s vaccine passport policy, which will see people required to present a health pass to access certain businesses such as restaurants or engage in various forms of travel.
Business owners that do not check for the health pass could also be punished under the new policy, with fines of up to €45,000 (£38,487/$53,100) and a year in prison.
PICS: ‘Liberty! Liberty!’ – 160,000 March Against Vaccine Passes in France
‘I Thought We Won the War?’ — Thousands Protest Against ‘Fascist’ Vaccine Passports
Quote:Following Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement that vaccine passports would be required for nightclubs and other public venues, thousands of Britons protested in London to demand a return to freedom.
Amid worldwide demonstrations against Chinese virus lockdowns and vaccine passports on Saturday, thousands of protesters gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square.
One protestor told Breitbart London that she had never attended a protest in her life until this year, saying: “The vaccine passport system is the final straw, it’s the thin end of the wedge”.
“The funny thing is, is that all the conspiracy theories that exist keep on coming true.”
“Deaths have dropped, people are getting vaccinated, and in theory, that’s supposed to protect us and here we still are. I see no end to it, they are never going to let go of the powers that they have stolen, they are loving it too much,” she said.
A young woman said that she was specifically motivated to join the protest because of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s vaccine passport plan for nightclubs and public venues, saying: “You can’t strip us out of society, we are all humans here.”
Another protester told Breitbart London that he was not a so-called “anti-vaxxer” and had indeed already had one dose of a coronavirus vaccine — but he insisted that “I will not show my papers when the state asks for them because it has no right to do so.”
One woman said that she attended the protest to stand up for her freedoms and that she didn’t “believe the bull**** we have been fed for the last eighteen months.”
She said that vaccine passports are “fascistic”, questioning: “I thought we won the war?”
“I thought we won the Second World War but the Nazis still seem to be in power,” she lamented.
The mass demonstration in London on Saturday was mirrored throughout the world, with large-scale protests being staged in France and Australia.
An estimated 161,000 protesters demonstrated across France on Saturday against President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed vaccine passport plan, which would require health passes for many aspects of French life, including for pubs and restaurants.
The legislation, which is set to be approved this week, would also mandate that healthcare workers be vaccinated as a term of their employment.
In Paris, police fired water cannons and tear gas to disperse the large crowds.
In Sydney, Australia, riot cops once again clashed with protesters, who took to the streets of the city after its draconian lockdown restrictions were extended, despite only eight Covid-related deaths in the state of New South Wales having been reported during the latest outbreak of the Wuhan virus.
There has been growing opposition in Britain to the idea of mandating health papers domestically, with the opposition Labour Party actually coming out against the measure — a significant move, as the left-wing party has mostly backed the Tory government’s lockdown diktats throughout the pandemic.
Labour has said that they would favour public venues using rapid lateral flow testing rather than checking for vaccination status.
More than forty Conservative MPs have also rebelled against the government and signed a declaration from the civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch, declaring that they are opposed to “Covid status certification to deny individuals access to general services, businesses or jobs”.
Following the protest in London, Tory MP Tom Tugendhat wrote on social media: “Vaccine passports risk a social credit system of control. If we need a vaccine for events like a party conference or a nightclub — why not to travel by a train, or go to a university lecture or a shop? What other choices will result in denial of service?”
It remains to be seen, however, if the tentative alliance between the Labour Party and the rebel Tories will be enough to defeat Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s parliamentary majority and pass his vaccine passport plan.
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