expected arrival in the Paris region at the end of the day

New fanfare awakening, Friday, February 11, for the “freedom convoy”. Near Lyon (Rhône), it was in a concert of horns that the procession took to the road again. Among the participants, many yellow vests of the first hour. “It’s not the return, it’s that we’re still here“, assures a man. As the convoy advances, new demonstrators join it, and with them new demands. “We are also here to fight against the poverty which is becoming greater and greater in the country, and all these taxes which are imposed, all these increases, whether on fuel, gas, water, electricity“, expresses a protester.

One of the objectives of the convoy is to reach the capital, in order to provoke government action. In Tours (Indre-et-Loire), the convoy spent the night on the side of the road. “The hardest part is falling asleep between the support horns“, quips a man. If the nights are difficult and sometimes cool, solidarity is there. “Last night, lots of people dropped off food, drinks, soups. It was extremely warm“, says a participant. The various convoys met at the end of the day, in the Paris region.