Four colors dominated the hill of Cora de Limoges Beaubreuil, visible from the A20 motorway, on this Thursday evening: the yellow of the indicators and the vests of the demonstrators, and the three colors of the French flag (blue, white, red). It is with a bang around 8:30 p.m. that the 400 vehicles of the “Convoi de la Liberté” arrived to park in the Cora parking lot in Limoges. Dozens of motorhomes, two buses and dozens of cars and motorcycles took place.
Free milk rolls and accommodation
Louis and his family also came to support protesters in cars. His sign reads “Thank you”. “We support them” he explains, comments completed by his father. “What this guy wants to say is that he is tired of wearing this mask. This government is forcing us to hide our faces. The faces, the smiles of youth!” He also says he is ready to host possible conveyors of freedom.
– Mickael Chailloux
Moreover, a woman is busy around a vehicle. In a cart borrowed from the store, food: baguettes, milk bread…etc… “We will set up breakfast” says Emmanuelle, a former nurse who is creating her own business. “It’s just solidarity. We contact each other via Telegram or social networks. Everyone tries to put in place what they can. I wanted to host, but I said to myself why not the dance hall? The owner kindly accepted ” she says. “That way they will be able to rest, the bikers…etc…”
No politics, they say, but opposition to the vaccine pass
While the slogans “We are here…even if Macron does not want to, we are here” are chanted, an improvised Marseillaise is launched. Alexis and Baya, from Estandens in Haute-Garonne, are in the parking lot. These two Haut-Garonne from Comminges take part in this convoy “for all claims, against this vaccine pass” _souligne Baya, in her sixties. “I wanted to start training to become a central football referee, but I have to get vaccinated”_ plague Alexis. “We are no longer citizens, can we go and vote” asks Baya.
Despite the announcement of the prefect of police of Paris Didier Lallement to prohibit the access of freedom convoys to the capital, Alexis and Baya don’t care. They intend to go to Paris, now accompanied by limousines. After a night’s sleep in a lodge near Limoges, they will leave this morning around 8:30 am.